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Efficient lazy algorithms for minimal-interval semantics
No full textMinimal-interval semantics [3] associates with each query over a document a set of intervals, called witnesses, that are incomparable with respect to inclusion (i.e., they form an antichain): witnesses define the minimal regions of the document satisfying the query. Minimalinterval semantics makes it easy to define and compute several sophisticated proximity operators, provides snippets for user presentation, and can be used to rank documents: thus, computing efficiently the antichains obtained by operations such as logic conjunction and disjunction is a basic issue. In this paper we provide the first algorithms for computing such operators that are linear in the number of intervals and logarithmic in the number of input antichains. The space used is linear in the number of antichains. Moreover, the algorithms are lazy - they do not assume random access to the input antichains. These properties make the usage of our algorithms feasible in large-scale web search engines
Replication package: Ultra-large-scale Repository Analysis via Graph Compression
No full textThis is the replication package of the article Ultra-large-scale Repository Analysis via Graph Compression:
Paolo Boldi, Antoine Pietri, Sebastiano Vigna and Stefano Zacchiroli.
Ultra-large-scale Repository Analysis via Graph Compression
2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER). IEEE, 2020.
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Engineering Zuffix Arrays
Full text linkSearching patterns in long strings is a classical algorithmic problem with countless practical applications. Suffix trees and suffix arrays (and their variants) are a long-established solution that yields linear-time search (in the size of the pattern). In [Paolo Boldi and Sebastiano Vigna, 2018] it is shown that a z-map gadget can be attached to (enhanced) suffix arrays to improve their theoretical query time, obtaining a data structure called zuffix array. The main contribution of this paper is to show that a carefully engineered implementation of the z-map gadget does provide significant speedups with respect to enhanced suffix arrays on real-world datasets, albeit doubling the required space. In particular, for large alphabets we observe a sevenfold improvement in query time with respect to enhanced suffix arrays; even in the worst case (small alphabets), the query time is almost halved. Thus, zuffix arrays provide a very interesting new point in the space-time tradeoff spectrum
Pictures from Mongolia. Extracting the Top Elements from a Partially Ordered Set.
No full textYou are back from that very long, marvellous journey. You have a thousand pictures, but your friends and relatives will stand just a few dozens. Choosing is a painful process, in particular when you cannot decide between the silent vastness of that desert and the idyllic picture of that tranquil, majestic lake. We are going to help.You are back from that very long, marvellous journey. You have a thousand pictures, but your friends and relatives will stand just a few dozens. Choosing is a painful process, in particular when you cannot decide between the silent vastness of that desert and the idyllic picture of that tranquil, majestic lake. We are going to help
A deeper investigation of PageRank as a function of the damping factor
Full text linkPageRank is defined as the stationary state of a Markov chain. The chain is obtained by perturbing the transition matrix induced by a web graph with a damping factor α that spreads uniformly part of the rank. The choice of α is eminently empirical, and in most cases the original suggestion α = 0.85 by Brin and Page is still used. In this paper, we give a mathematical analysis of PageRank when α changes. In particular, we show that, contrarily to popular belief, for real-world graphs values of α close to 1 do not give a more meaningful ranking. Then, we give closed-form formulae for PageRank derivatives of any order, and by proving that the k-th iteration of the Power Method gives exactly the PageRank value obtained using a Maclaurin polynomial of degree k, we show how to obtain an approximation of the derivatives. Finally, we view PageRank as a linear operator acting on the preference vector and show a tight connection between iterated computation and derivation.
Pictures from Mongolia - Partial Sorting in a Partial World
No full textYou are back from that very long, marvelous journey. You have a thousand pictures, but your friends and relatives will stand just a few dozens. Choosing is a painful process, in particular when you cannot decide between the silent vastity of that desert and the idyllic picture of that tranquil, majestic lake. We are going to help. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Monotonicity in Undirected Networks
No full textThis archive contains Sage worksheets associated with the paper “Monotonicity in Undirected Networks”, by
Paolo Boldi, Flavio Furia, and Sebastiano Vigna, published on Network Science
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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