We describe a subsystem of a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) environment that supports a user in the definition of image similarity. Out of a single image or a set of query i...
Web crawlers are increasingly used for focused tasks such as the extraction of data from Wikipedia or the analysis of social networks like last.fm. In these cases, pages are far m...
Franziska von dem Bussche, Klara A. Weiand, Benedi...
Snippets are used by almost every text search engine to complement ranking scheme in order to effectively handle user searches, which are inherently ambiguous and whose relevance ...
Accessing and integrating data from heterogeneous sources has become a significant challenge. So-called adapters provide the functionality for translating SQL queries into querie...
The XML support in relational databases and the SQL/XML language are still relatively new as compared to purely relational databases and traditional SQL. Today, most database user...