Modern information retrieval systems need the capability to reason about the knowledge conveyed by text bases. In this paper a methodology to automatically create ontologies and cl...
In this paper we introduce POLAR, a probabilistic objectoriented logical framework for annotation-based information retrieval. In POLAR, the knowledge about digital objects, annot...
We have built over the last few years an integrated browser and query interface for watching a movie synchronized with its script. The system is demonstrated with the movie ’The...
We perform a theoretical study of the following queryview security problem: given a view V to be published, does V logically disclose information about a confidential query S? The...
Information agents are computational software systems that provides transparent access to many different information sources in the Internet, and to be able to retrieve, analyze, ...