A large number of web pages contain data structured in the form of “lists”. Many such lists can be further split into multi-column tables, which can then be used in more seman...
Metadata plays an important role in discovering, collecting, extracting and aggregating Web data. This paper proposes a method of constructing metadata for a specific topic. The m...
Online auction Web sites are fast changing, highly dynamic, and complex as they involve tremendous sellers and potential buyers, as well as a huge amount of items listed for biddi...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
We present VideoPot, a desktop video search system designed for digital video files stored on personal computers. The core metric of this system is based on video-indexing techno...
Hidenobu Nagata, Dan Mikami, Shozo Azuma, Masashi ...