Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities to fully i...
Internet is a huge source of information. Search engines have indexed much of this information and are able to extract the relevant webpages that are related to a given query. Howe...
Continuous Queries (CQ) help users to retrieve results as soon as they become available. The CQ keeps track of two important events. If there is any change in the source informatio...
Though both quantity and quality of semantic concept detection in video are continuously improving, it still remains unclear how to exploit these detected concepts as semantic ind...
Existing keyword-search systems in relational databases require users to submit a complete query to compute answers. Often users feel "left in the dark" when they have l...