Keyword-based search in relational databases allows users to discover relevant information without knowing the database schema or using complicated queries. However, such searches...
In contrast to classical databases and IR systems, real-world information systems have to deal increasingly with very vague and diverse structures for information management and s...
Xuan Zhou, Julien Gaugaz, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgan...
The visualization of geo-referenced information on a map has become an essential method to help the users to get the intended information. The adaptation of visualization techniqu...
Maria Beatriz Carmo, Ana Paula Afonso, Paulo Pombi...
This paper describes a novel approach to the presentation of results from web-search by utilizing the semantic correlations amongst the retrieved results as well as their spatio-t...
Rahul Singh, Ya-Wen Hsu, Wen-Cheng Sun, Dil Chitau...
Queries submitted to a retrieval system are often ambiguous. In such a situation, a sensible strategy is to diversify the ranking of results to be retrieved, in the hope that users...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, I...