Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
Learning semantics from annotated images to enhance content-based retrieval is an important research direction. In this paper, annotation data are assumed available for only a sub...
XML data projection (or pruning) is one of the main optimization techniques recently adopted in the context of main-memory XML query-engines. The underlying idea is quite simple: ...
Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad M...
: To aid job seekers searching for job vacancies, we have developed a new configurable meta-search engine for the human resources domain. In this paper we describe the three main c...