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TALG
2010
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Distributed error confinement
We initiate the study of error confinement in distributed applications, where the goal is that only nodes that were directly hit by a fault may deviate from their correct external...
Yossi Azar, Shay Kutten, Boaz Patt-Shamir
TALG
2010
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Efficient algorithms for the 2-gathering problem
Alon Shalita, Uri Zwick
TALG
2010
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Finding shortest contractible and shortest separating cycles in embedded graphs
We give a polynomial-time algorithm to find a shortest contractible cycle (i.e. a closed walk without repeated vertices) in a graph embedded in a surface. This answers a question ...
Sergio Cabello
TAL
2010
Springer
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Transliteration as Alignment vs. Transliteration as Generation for Crosslingual Information Retrieval
Crosslingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) usually requires query translation and, due to named entities in the case of IR, query translation requires a good transliteration system ...
Anil Kumar Singh, Sethuramalingam Subramaniam, Tar...
TAL
2010
Springer
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A Formal Ontology for a Computational Approach of Time and Aspect
This paper provides a linguistic semantic analysis of time and aspect in natural languages. On the basis of topological concepts, notions are introduced like the basic aspectual op...
Aurelien Arena, Jean-Pierre Desclés
SIGDIAL
2010
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: An empirical investigation of the upper bound of the selection approach to dialogue
We perform a study of existing dialogue corpora to establish the theoretical maximum performance of the selection approach to simulating human dialogue behavior in unseen dialogue...
Sudeep Gandhe, David R. Traum
SIGDIAL
2010
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Towards Incremental Speech Generation in Dialogue Systems
We present a first step towards a model of speech generation for incremental dialogue systems. The model allows a dialogue system to incrementally interpret spoken input, while si...
Gabriel Skantze, Anna Hjalmarsson
IHI
2010
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Section classification in clinical notes using supervised hidden markov model
As more and more information is available in the Electronic Health Record in the form of free-text narrative, there is a need for automated tools, which can process and understand...
Ying Li, Sharon Lipsky Gorman, Noemie Elhadad
IHI
2010
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The effect of different context representations on word sense discrimination in biomedical texts
Unsupervised word sense discrimination relies on the idea that words that occur in similar contexts will have similar meanings. These techniques cluster multiple contexts in which...
Ted Pedersen
ISCI
2011
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Automatic threshold estimation for data matching applications
Juliana Bonato dos Santos, Carlos A. Heuser, Vivia...