International Business Machines Corporation

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Grirem Advanced Materials Co., Ltd.

Other

General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals

Grirem Hi-Tech Co., Ltd.

Guoke Re Advanced Materials Co., Ltd.

Rare Earth Functional Materials (Xiong'an) Innovation Center Co., Ltd.

Rare Earth Functional Materials (Xiong'an) Innovation Co., Ltd.

Baidu Online Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Lei Cui

Furu Wei

Ming Zhou

Ya Qiong Liu

Shaohan Huang

Hao Wu

Xing Xing Shen

Ping Liu

Yi Dai

Chang Sheng Liu

Huaqiang He

Li Dong

Jinqiu Yu

Chengpeng Diao

Yang Liu

Hai Jun Shen

Ziqiang Cao

Liang Luo

Tao Ge

Wei-Ying Ma

Yan Xu

Tomasz Lukasz Religa

Kaushik Ramaiah Narayanan

Max Wang

Kati Amanda London

Huitian Jiao

Si-Qing Chen

Haoyong Zhang

Ying Qi Pan

Ravi Mandliya

Xue Huang

Utsab Bose

Xingxing Zhang

Yu-Ting Kuo

There is provided a solution for semantic representation of text in a document. In this solution, textual information comprising a sequence of text elements () and layout information () of the text element are determined from a document. The layout information () indicates a spatial arrangement of the plurality of text elements () presented within the document. Based at least in part on the plurality of text elements () and the layout information (), respective semantic feature representations () of the plurality of text elements () are generated. By jointly using both the textual information and the layout information (), rich semantics of the text elements () in the document can be effectively captured in the feature representations.

Semantic representation of text in document

The present invention relates to a rare earth halide scintillating material. The material has a general chemical formula LaCeBr, wherein 0.001x1, and 0.0001y0.1. The rare earth halide scintillating material involved in the present invention has excellent scintillation properties of high light output, high energy resolution, and fast decay.

Rare earth halide scintillation material

An approach is provided for optimizing multi-datasource queries in a networked computing environment. A procedure that contains a set of queries designed to access a specific set of data from a plurality of datasources in a virtualized hybrid storage environment (e.g., a virtualized hybrid cloud) is obtained. A set of mapped store procedures is created for the set of datasources referenced in the procedure. Each mapped store procedure includes a subset of queries that are applicable to a corresponding datasource from the set of queries in the procedure. These mapped store procedures are forwarded to the corresponding datasource for storage on the corresponding datasource. In response to a running of the procedure, execution of the mapped store procedure is commenced on each of the corresponding datasources on which they are stored.

Remote datasource-based optimization of procedure-based multi-datasource queries

An approach for optimizing statistical query performance. The approach receives a structured query language set. The approach identifies a first set of parameters associated with the statements of the SQL set. The approach creates a merged SQL statement based on one or more matching parameters of SQL statements in the SQL set. The approach binds a second set of parameters associated with the merged SQL statement to the merged SQL statement. The approach generates a SQL statement based on the merged SQL statement. The approach generates a remote SQL statement based on the SQL statement. The approach executes a commit statement on the remote SQL statement.

Database query performance improvement

According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is provided a solution for generating a summary of a document. In this solution, feature information of pages comprised in a document is extracted, which characterizes at least one type of content contained in each page. Respective importance of the pages is determined at least based on the extracted feature information. A summary of the document is generated for the document by selecting a predetermined number of pages less than the number of the pages based on the respective importance. Through the solution, instead of providing all the pages, pages containing important content may be determined automatically to serve as the summary of the document. This summary allows the user to learn quickly main content of the document, shorten the time consumed in browsing all documents and/or facilitate location of a document of interest as soon as possible.

Generating document summary

A system and method for converting a document is described. The system accesses a document comprising one or more section breaks. The system detects sections of the text document demarked by the one or more section breaks and generates a section title metadata and a section summary metadata for each section of the plurality of sections. The system inserts the section title metadata and the section summary metadata at the corresponding section breaks in the text document. The system modifies the text document into slides. Each slide being formed for each section based on the corresponding section title metadata and the section summary metadata. The system generates a presentation document based on the slides.

Document conversion engine

Techniques are described with respect to processing a federated query. An associated computer-implemented method includes compiling a query received from a client computing system to generate a query statement and a query access plan. The query access plan incorporates a modified database access application programming interface (API) that supports data serialization. The method further includes executing the query access plan to transmit the query statement to a remote database system. The method further includes fetching a query result set from the remote database system including serialized binary large object (BLOB) data. The method further includes deserializing the serialized BLOB data of the query result set and populating an in-memory data structure with deserialized query results. In an embodiment, the method further includes transmitting the deserialized query results to the client computing system. In an additional embodiment, the method further includes generating query serialization capabilities for the remote database system.

Processing a federated query via data serialization

The present disclosure provides a technical solution of live comments generating, which may acquire candidate texts highly similar with segments of video as live comments of corresponding segments by matching the candidate texts with the segments, and further generate new live comments based on video segments and existed live comments to enrich the live comments information of related video.

Live comments generating

Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a solution that enables a machine to automatically generate a melody. In this solution, user emotion and/or environment information is used to select a first melody feature parameter from a plurality of melody feature parameters, wherein each of the plurality of melody feature parameters corresponds to a music style of one of a plurality of reference melodies. The first melody feature parameter is further used to generate a first melody that conforms to the music style and is different from the reference melody. Thus, a melody that matches user emotions and/or environmental information may be automatically created.

Autonomous generation of melody

A rare earth halide scintillation material the chemical formula of the material being CeBr, wherein 0.0001x0.1. The rare earth halide scintillation material has excellent scintillation properties including high light output, high energy resolution, and fast decay.

A system and method of joining remote tables by a federated server is provided. A method includes receiving a data join request from a client device; sending a first block fetch request to a first data source based on the data join request; receiving a first set of block data from the first data source; sending a second block fetch request to a second data source based on the data join request and a bind array containing the data of join column in the first data source; receiving a second set of block data from the second data source; and sending an output to the client device in response to the data join request in the form of rows from an outer table and an inner table.

Joining remote tables by a federated server

The present invention provides a rare-earth halide scintillating material and application thereof. The rare-earth halide scintillating material has a chemical formula of RECeX, wherein RE is a rare-earth element La, Gd, Lu or Y, X is one or two of halogens Cl, Br and I, 0&#x2264;a&#x2264;1.1, 0.01&#x2264;b&#x2264;1.1, and 1.0001&#x2264;a+b&#x2264;1.2. By taking a +2 valent rare-earth halide having the same composition as a dopant to replace a heterogeneous alkaline earth metal halide in the prior art for doping, the rare-earth halide scintillating material is relatively short of a halogen ion. The apparent valence state of a rare-earth ion is between +2 and +3. The rare-earth halide scintillating material belongs to non-stoichiometric compounds, but still retains a crystal structure of an original stoichiometric compound, and has more excellent energy resolution and energy response linearity than the stoichiometric compound.

Rare-earth halide scintillating material and application thereof

Methods and systems for linking comments to portions of content items. An example computing device receives information associated with a content item produced by a source system, the content item being accessible to other the computing devices via a network and receives a comment associated with the content item, the comment produced by one of the other computing devices. In response to receiving the information and the comment, the computing device predicts a subsection of the content item to link to the received comment based at least on details associated with the content item and the comment, then makes information associated with the predicted subsection of the content item available to other computing devices requesting access to the content item.

Systems and methods for providing a comment-centered news reader

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for selling a commodity, a vending machine and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring an image of eyes of a user, determining based on the image of eyes a gaze point of the user within a commodity displaying plane matching a vending machine; determining, based on position coordinates of at least two commodities in the commodity displaying plane and the gaze point, an expected commodity corresponding to the user; providing commodity indication information of the expected commodity to the user; and in response to detecting purchase confirmation information fed back by the user for the commodity indication information, guiding the user to use at least one biological characteristic to finish payment for the expected commodity.

Method for selling commodity, vending machine and storage medium

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