Most image retrieval systems perform a linear search over the database to find the closest match to a query. However, databases usually exhibit a natural grouping structure into c...
To effectively support today's global economy, database systems need to store and manipulate text data in multiple languages simultaneously. Current database systems do suppor...
Background: The MEDLINE database contains over 12 million references to scientific literature, ut 3/4 of recent articles including an abstract of the publication. Retrieval of ent...
A scenario in ontology development and its use is hypothesis testing, such as finding new subconcepts based on the data linked to the ontology. During such experimentation, knowle...
In many domains there are specific attributes in documents that carry more weight than the general words in the document. This paper proposes the use of information extraction tec...