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BTW
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Integrating Query-Feedback Based Statistics into Informix Dynamic Server
: Statistics that accurately describe the distribution of data values in the columns of relational tables are essential for effective query optimization in a database management sy...
Alexander Behm, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Kesha...
UAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
EMNLP
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised WSD based on Automatically Retrieved Examples: The Importance of Bias
This paper explores the large-scale acquisition of sense-tagged examples for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). We have applied the "WordNet monosemous relatives" method t...
Eneko Agirre, David Martínez
PODS
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Secondary indexing in one dimension: beyond b-trees and bitmap indexes
Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...
Rasmus Pagh, Srinivasa Rao Satti
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Large-Margin Discriminative Training of Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition
Discriminative training has been a leading factor for improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance over the last decade. The traditional discriminative training, howev...
Dong Yu, Li Deng