Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Publish/subscribe systems have demonstrated the ability to scale to large numbers of users and high data rates when providing content-based data dissemination services on the Inte...
Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this paper, we initiate research on the anytime b...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Ni...
There has been much recent progress in the technical infrastructure necessary to continuously characterize and archive all sounds, or more precisely auditory streams, that occur w...
Jiachen Xue, Gordon Wichern, Harvey D. Thornburg, ...
Abstract A rich family of generic Information Extraction (IE) techniques have been developed by researchers nowadays. This paper proposes WebKER, a system for automatically extract...