We present a purely functional implementation of search trees that requires O(log n) time for search and update operations and supports the join of two trees in worst case constant...
Abstract-- Answering approximate queries on string collections is important in applications such as data cleaning, query relaxation, and spell checking, where inconsistencies and e...
Abstract. After text retrieval, the next waves in web searching and multimedia retrieval are the search for and delivery of images, music, video, and 3D scenes. Not only the percep...
Protein structure determination and prediction has been a focal research subject in life sciences due to the importance of protein structure in understanding the biological and ch...
In order for agents to act on behalf of users, they will have to retrieve and integrate vast amounts of textual data on the World Wide Web. However, much of the useful data on the...