Images can affect people on an emotional level. Since the emotions that arise in the viewer of an image are highly subjective, they are rarely indexed. However there are situation...
Temporal aggregate queries retrieve summarized information about records with time-evolving attributes. Existing approaches have at least one of the following shortcomings: (i) th...
The proliferation of text documents on the web as well as within institutions necessitates their convenient organization to enable efficient retrieval of information. Although tex...
Sriharsha Veeramachaneni, Diego Sona, Paolo Avesan...
In this paper we examine 1) the scope of geo-ontologies used especially for the purposes of information retrieval on the Web, 2) the core geographical concepts and their mutual re...
Current search engines do not fully leverage semantically rich datasets, or specialise in indexing just one domainspecific dataset. We present a search engine that uses the RDF da...