Recent years have seen the rise of subject-themed digital libraries, such as the NSDL pathways and the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE). These libraries often ne...
Steven Bethard, Soumya Ghosh, James H. Martin, Tam...
As more and more information is available on the web, it is a problem that many web resources are not accessible, i.e., are not usable for users with special needs. For example, f...
This paper reports on the development and application of strategies and tools for geographic information seeking and knowledge building that leverages unstructured text resources ...
Brian M. Tomaszewski, Justine Blanford, Kevin Ross...
Although the Web lets users freely browse and publish information, most Web information is unauthorized in contrast to conventional mass media. Therefore, it is not always credibl...
We consider the problem of indexing high-dimensional data for answering (approximate) similarity-search queries. Similarity indexes prove to be important in a wide variety of sett...