— One of the critical issues in search engines is the size of search indexes: as the number of documents handled by an engine increases, the search must preserve its efficiency,...
The integration of data from different sources often leads to the adoption of schemata that entail a loss of information in respect of one or more of the data sets being combined....
The current effort to extend the power of information systems by making use of the semantics associated with terms and structures has resulted in a need to establish correspondenc...
Domenico Beneventano, Sabina El Haoum, Daniele Mon...
Named entities (e.g., "Kofi Annan", "Coca-Cola", "Second World War") are ubiquitous in web pages and other types of document and often provide a simpl...
Felix Weigel, Klaus U. Schulz, Levin Brunner, Edua...
As privacy becomes a major concern for both consumers and enterprises, many research efforts have been devoted to the development of privacy protecting technology. We recently pr...