Abstract. In this paper we present a new approach for studying aggregations in the context of database query languages. Starting from a broad de nition of aggregate function, we ad...
Statistical language modeling (SLM) has been used in many different domains for decades and has also been applied to information retrieval (IR) recently. Documents retrieved using...
An essential step in comparative reconstruction is to align corresponding phonological segments in the words being compared. To do this, one must search among huge numbers of pote...
Exploiting unannotated natural language data is hard largely because unsupervised parameter estimation is hard. We describe deterministic annealing (Rose et al., 1990) as an appea...
Graphical notations are already popular for the design of software, as witnessed by the success of the Uniform Modeling Languages (UML). In this paper, we advocate the use of grap...