In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in spatial databases. A major issue is how to manipulate efficiently massive amounts of spatial data stored on disk in multidi...
Lars Arge, Klaus Hinrichs, Jan Vahrenhold, Jeffrey...
With the rise of XML, the database community has been challenged by semi-structured data processing. Since the data type behind XML is the tree, state-of-the-art RDBMSs have learn...
For the 2005 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, Thomson Legal and Regulatory participated in the Hungarian, French, and Portuguese monolingual search tasks as well as French-to-Port...
The PC Desktop is a very rich repository of personal information, efficiently capturing user's interests. In this paper we propose a new approach towards an automatic persona...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu S. Firan, Wolfgang...
This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...