This paper presents a system that retrieves descriptive phrases of proper nouns from free text. Sentences holding the specified noun are ranked using a technique based on pattern ...
In order to provide database-like features for files, particularly for searching in Web data, one solution is to migrate file data into a relational database. Having stored the da...
The Informedia Digital Video Library contains over 1200 hours of video. Through automatic processing, descriptors are derived for the video to improve library access. A new extens...
In this paper we propose and analyze a new spatial access method, namely the S∗ -tree, for the efficient secondary memory encoding and manipulation of images containing multiple ...
: The bene ts of the object, logic or relational, functional, and constraint paradigms can be obtained from our previous combination of the object and functional paradigms in hidde...