XML parsing is generally known to have poor performance characteristics relative to transactional database processing. Yet, its potentially fatal impact on overall database perfor...
The development of technologies to address machine translation and distillation of multilingual broadcast data depends heavily on the collection of large volumes of material from ...
Automatically segmenting unstructured text strings into structured records is necessary for importing the information contained in legacy sources and text collections into a data ...
Abstract The protection of customer privacy is a fundamental issue in today's corporate marketing strategies. Not surprisingly, many research efforts have proposed new privacy...
In this paper we discuss how metaphors for supporting user interaction with multimedia databases can be automatically generated. The work presented is a further step in the develo...
Maria Francesca Costabile, Donato Malerba, Matthia...