Fully automatic methods that extract lists of objects from the Web have been studied extensively. Record extraction, the first step of this object extraction process, identifies...
The ability to deal with uncertain information is becoming increasingly important for modern database applications. Whereas a conventional (certain) object is usually represented ...
Exact substring matching queries on large data collections can be answered using q-gram indices, that store for each occurring q-byte pattern an (ordered) posting list with the po...
In dynamic environments with frequent content updates, we require online full-text search that scales to large data collections and achieves low search latency. Several recent met...
HyperNEAT, a generative encoding for evolving artificial neural networks (ANNs), has the unique and powerful ability to exploit the geometry of a problem (e.g., symmetries) by enc...