Heterogeneous entities or objects are very common and are usually interrelated with each other in many scenarios. For example, typical Web search activities involve multiple types...
We describe a method for improving the precision of metasearch results based upon scoring the visual features of documents' surrogate representations. These surrogate scores ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
Access to on-line information via the Web is exploding. Index and retrieval engines already start to integrate a huge variety of heterogeneous repositories. However, the heterogen...
Boris Chidlovskii, Uwe M. Borghoff, Pierre-Yves Ch...
In this paper we propose algorithms for combining and ranking answers from distributed heterogeneous data sources in the context of a multi-ontology Question Answering task. Our pr...
The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) [7] represents the result of manual and disciplined modeling of the structural organization of the human body. Many workers in medical info...