Component-Based Development (CBD) of software, with its successes in enterprise computing, has the promise of being a good development model due to its cost effectiveness and pote...
This paper shows that a simple two-stage approach to handle non-local dependencies in Named Entity Recognition (NER) can outperform existing approaches that handle non-local depen...
We describe QoSMap, a novel approach for mapping overlay networks with stringent QoS requirements. QoSMap computes high quality overlay paths by utilizing direct underlay paths th...
There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...
No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherrank...