An important direction in database research for non-standard applications (e.g. engineering or design applications) deals with adequate support for complex objects. Without doubt,...
Estimating human body poses in static images is important for many image understanding applications including semantic content extraction and image database query and retrieval. Th...
We introduce a probabilistic noisychannel model for question answering and we show how it can be exploited in the context of an end-to-end QA system. Our noisy-channel system outp...
Keyword search is an effective approach for most users to search for information because they do not need to learn complex query languages or the underlying structures of the data....
Keywords, restricted vocabularies (RVs), thesauri, and catalogues are introduced leading up to discussion of the need for full ontologies to describe the full logical and relation...