Question classification plays an important role in question answering. Features are the key to obtain an accurate question classifier. In contrast to Li and Roth (2002)'s app...
This paper describes a model for spatiotemporal objects whose location is fixed, but its boundaries and properties change. We refer to these as evolving objects. We consider cases ...
Olga Regina Fradico de Oliveira Bittencourt, Gilbe...
Many geographic terms, such as "river" and "lake", are vague, with no clear boundaries of application. In particular, the spatial extent of such features is oft...
The optimization of similarity queries using metric access methods has been widely discussed in the last decades. Similarity queries consider one object as the query center, and re...
Humberto Luiz Razente, Maria Camila Nardini Barion...
In a range-aggegate query problem we wish to preprocess a set S of geometric objects such that given a query orthogonal range q, a certain intersection or proximity query on the o...