Similarity joins in databases can be used for several important tasks such as data cleaning and instance-based data integration. In this paper, we explore ways how to support such ...
Increasingly, companies recognize that most of their important information does not exist in relational stores but in documents. For a long time, textual information has been rela...
Abstract. In this paper, we present an image retrieval system that employs both the color and spatial information of images to facilitate the retrieval process. The basic unit used...
Abstract. Search engines traditionally index unstructured text and return ranked lists of documents that match a given query. As search engines functionally move in the direction o...
We consider the retrieval of XML-structured documents, and of passages from such documents, defined as elements of the XML structure. These are considered from the point of view of...