For the past two years the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG), a working group of ISO/IEC, have been developing MPEG-7 [1], the "Multimedia Content Description Interface"...
Wide-area distribution raises significant performance problems for traditional query processing techniques as data access becomes less predictable due to link congestion, load imb...
1 The latent semantic indexing (LSI) methodology for information retrieval applies the singular value decomposition to identify an eigensystem for a large matrix, in which cells re...
Using models in different contexts poses major integration challenges, ranging from technical to conceptual levels. Independently of each other developed model components cannot b...
Polysemy is one of the most difficult problems when dealing with natural language resources. Consequently, automated ontology learning from textual sources (such as web resources) ...