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EMNLP
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Solving the Problem of Cascading Errors: Approximate Bayesian Inference for Linguistic Annotation Pipelines
The end-to-end performance of natural language processing systems for compound tasks, such as question answering and textual entailment, is often hampered by use of a greedy 1-bes...
Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew ...
FSTTCS
2006
Springer
14 years 12 days ago
Approximation Algorithms for 2-Stage Stochastic Optimization Problems
Abstract. Stochastic optimization is a leading approach to model optimization problems in which there is uncertainty in the input data, whether from measurement noise or an inabili...
Chaitanya Swamy, David B. Shmoys
ENTCS
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
An Algorithm for Approximating the Satisfiability Problem of High-level Conditions
The satisfiability problem is the fundamental problem in proving the conflict-freeness of specifications, or in finding a counterexample for an invalid statement. In this paper, w...
Karl-Heinz Pennemann
HEURISTICS
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
Computing Approximate Solutions of the Maximum Covering Problem with GRASP
We consider the maximum covering problem, a combinatorial optimization problem that arises in many facility location problems. In this problem, a potential facility site covers a s...
Mauricio G. C. Resende
ISAAC
2004
Springer
106views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2004»
14 years 2 months ago
Minimum Common String Partition Problem: Hardness and Approximations
String comparison is a fundamental problem in computer science, with applications in areas such as computational biology, text processing or compression. In this paper we address t...
Avraham Goldstein, Petr Kolman, Jie Zheng