It is crucial for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems to deal with the translation of unknown queries1 due to that real queries might be short. The purpose of this...
The Web is the richest source of information and knowledge. Unfortunately the current structure of Web pages makes it difficult for users to retrieve the information or knowledge ...
We present the first prototype of INDUS (Intelligent Data Understanding System), a federated, query-centric system for information integration and knowledge acquisition from dist...
Doina Caragea, Jie Bao, Jyotishman Pathak, Adrian ...
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...
The integration of heterogenous data sources is a crucial step for the upcoming semantic web – if existing information is not integrated, where will the data come from that the s...