Relevance feedback has been taken as an essential tool to enhance content-based information retrieval systems by keeping the user in the retrieval loop. Among the fundamental rele...
This paper studies cross-language cross-medium information retrieval. We introduce several approaches to unify the languages and media of queries and documents. We experiment on c...
A growing number of databases especially those published on the Web are becoming available to external users. Users of these databases are provided simple form-based query interfa...
Many applications require the management of spatial data. Clustering large spatial databases is an important problem which tries to find the densely populated regions in the featu...
What is the intended interpretation of a geospatial database in terms of reproducible experiences? How should places on a digital globe be interpreted on the earth surface? And how...