Traditional Chinese text retrieval systems return a ranked list of documentsin response to a user''s request. While a ranked list of documents may be an appropriate response forthe user, frequently it is not. ...Traditional Chinese text retrieval systems return a ranked list of documentsin response to a user''s request. While a ranked list of documents may be an appropriate response forthe user, frequently it is not. Usually it would be better for the system to provide the answeritself instead of requiring the user to search for the answer in a set of documents. Since Chinesetext retrieval has just been developed lately, and due to various specific characteristics ofChinese language, the approaches to its retrieval are quite different from those studies andresearches proposed to deal with Western language. Thus, an architecture that augments existingsearch engines is developed to support Chinese natural language question answering. In this paper anew approach to building Chinese question-answering system is described, which is thegeneral-purpose, fully-automated Chinese quest ion-answering system available on the web. In theapproach, we attempt to represent Chinese text by its characteristics, and try to convert theChinese text into ERE (E: entity, R: relation) relation data lists, and then to answer the questionthrough ERE relation model. The system performs quite well giving the simplicity of the techniquesbeing utilized. Experimental results show that question-answering accuracy can be greatly improvedby analyzing more and more matching ERE relation data lists. Simple ERE relation data extractiontechniques work well in our system making it efficient to use with many backend retrieval engines.展开更多
This work is focused on presenting a split precondition approach for the modeling and proving the correctness of distributed algorithms. Formal specification and precise analysis of Peterson's distributed mutual e...This work is focused on presenting a split precondition approach for the modeling and proving the correctness of distributed algorithms. Formal specification and precise analysis of Peterson's distributed mutual exclusion algorithm for two process has been considered. The proof of properties like, mutual exclusion, liveness, and lockout-freedom have also been presented. Keywords distributed algorithms - state transition rule - mutual exclusion - weakest self-precondition - weakest co-operation - correctness Regular PaperAwadhesh Kumar Singh received the B.E. degree in computer science & engineering from Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India in 1988. He received the M.E. and Ph.D. (Engg) degrees in the same area from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He is a faculty member in Computer Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India. His present research interest is distributed systems.Anup Kumar Bandyopadhyay received the B.E. (Tel.E.), M.E. (Tel.E.), and Ph.D. (Engg) degrees from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India in 1968, 1970 and 1983, respectively. From 1970 to 1972 he worked with the Microwave Antenna System Engineering Group of the Indian Space Research Organization. In 1972 he joined the Department of Electronics and Telecommuication Engineering, Jadavpur University, where he is currently a professor. His research interests include computer communication networks and distributed systems.展开更多
文摘Traditional Chinese text retrieval systems return a ranked list of documentsin response to a user''s request. While a ranked list of documents may be an appropriate response forthe user, frequently it is not. Usually it would be better for the system to provide the answeritself instead of requiring the user to search for the answer in a set of documents. Since Chinesetext retrieval has just been developed lately, and due to various specific characteristics ofChinese language, the approaches to its retrieval are quite different from those studies andresearches proposed to deal with Western language. Thus, an architecture that augments existingsearch engines is developed to support Chinese natural language question answering. In this paper anew approach to building Chinese question-answering system is described, which is thegeneral-purpose, fully-automated Chinese quest ion-answering system available on the web. In theapproach, we attempt to represent Chinese text by its characteristics, and try to convert theChinese text into ERE (E: entity, R: relation) relation data lists, and then to answer the questionthrough ERE relation model. The system performs quite well giving the simplicity of the techniquesbeing utilized. Experimental results show that question-answering accuracy can be greatly improvedby analyzing more and more matching ERE relation data lists. Simple ERE relation data extractiontechniques work well in our system making it efficient to use with many backend retrieval engines.
文摘This work is focused on presenting a split precondition approach for the modeling and proving the correctness of distributed algorithms. Formal specification and precise analysis of Peterson's distributed mutual exclusion algorithm for two process has been considered. The proof of properties like, mutual exclusion, liveness, and lockout-freedom have also been presented. Keywords distributed algorithms - state transition rule - mutual exclusion - weakest self-precondition - weakest co-operation - correctness Regular PaperAwadhesh Kumar Singh received the B.E. degree in computer science & engineering from Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India in 1988. He received the M.E. and Ph.D. (Engg) degrees in the same area from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He is a faculty member in Computer Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India. His present research interest is distributed systems.Anup Kumar Bandyopadhyay received the B.E. (Tel.E.), M.E. (Tel.E.), and Ph.D. (Engg) degrees from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India in 1968, 1970 and 1983, respectively. From 1970 to 1972 he worked with the Microwave Antenna System Engineering Group of the Indian Space Research Organization. In 1972 he joined the Department of Electronics and Telecommuication Engineering, Jadavpur University, where he is currently a professor. His research interests include computer communication networks and distributed systems.