In contrast with the booming increase of internet data, state-of-art QA (question answering) systems, otherwise, concerned data from specific domains or resources such as search e...
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...
The problem of storing a set of strings – a string dictionary – in compact form appears naturally in many cases. While classically it has represented a small part of the whole ...
This work explores the problem of cross-lingual pairwise similarity, where the task is to extract similar pairs of documents across two different languages. Solutions to this pro...
We develop a flexible information-flow type system for a range of encryption primitives, precisely reflecting their diverse functional and security features. Our rules enable e...