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...
Due to the lack of in-built tools to navigate the web, people have to use external solutions to find information. The most popular of these are search engines and web directories....
In urban areas, buildings are often used as landmarks for localization. Reliable and efficient recognition of buildings is crucial for enabling this functionality. Motivated by t...
Active OODBMSs must provide e cient support for event detection, composition, and rule execution. Previous experience, reported here, building active capabilities on top of existi...
Classification is an important problem in data mining. Given a database of records, each with a class label, a classifier generates a concise and meaningful description for each c...