Today, neither transactional provisions, in general, nor concurrency control, in particular, of DBMS-based processing are tailored to the specific needs of large and collaborative...
In TREC-10, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) participated in the Web track (ad hoc retrieval task and homepage finding task). The latest version of the Okapi system (Windows 2000 ve...
Jianfeng Gao, Guihong Cao, Hongzhao He, Min Zhang,...
We present a novel sentence reduction system for automatically removing extraneous phrases from sentences that are extracted from a document for summarization purpose. The system ...
One of the major challenges facing current media management systems and related applications is the so-called ‘‘semantic gap’’ between the rich meaning that a user desires...
Baoxin Li, James H. Errico, Hao Pan, M. Ibrahim Se...
The Air Travel Information System (ATIS) domain serves as the common evaluation task for ARPA"spoken language system developers.1To support this task, the Multi-Site ATIS Dat...
Deborah A. Dahl, Madeleine Bates, Michael Brown, W...