We consider the network structure and query processing capabilities of social communities like bookmarks and photo sharing communities such as del.icio.us or flickr. A common fea...
Advanced personalization of database applications is a big challenge, in particular for distributed mobile environments. We present several new results from a prototype of a route...
We describe Occam, a query planning algorithm that determines the best way to integrate data from dierent sources. As input, Occam takes a library of site descriptions and a user ...
In this poster, we propose a novel document summarization approach named Ontology-enriched M ulti-Document Summarization(OMS) for utilizing background knowledge to improve summari...
This paper presents methods to improve retrieval of Out-OfVocabulary (OOV) terms in a Spoken Term Detection (STD) system. We demonstrate that automated tagging of OOV regions help...