If XML is to play the critical role of the lingua franca for Internet data interchange that many predict, it is necessary to start designing and adopting benchmarks allowing the c...
Stochastic context-free grammars (SCFGs) have long been recognized as useful for a large variety of tasks including natural language processing, morphological parsing, speech reco...
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
Location-based services have attracted the attention of important research in the field of mobile computing. Specifically, different mechanisms have been proposed to process loc...
It has long been recognized that capturing term relationships is an important aspect of information retrieval. Even with large amounts of data, we usually only have significant ev...