Focused crawlers are considered as a promising way to tackle the scalability problem of topic-oriented or personalized search engines. To design a focused crawler, the choice of s...
Social annotation has gained increasing popularity in many Web-based applications, leading to an emerging research area in text analysis and information retrieval. This paper is c...
A core problem in data mining is to retrieve data in a easy and human friendly way. Automatically translating natural language questions into SQL queries would allow for the design...
Technology in the field of digital media generates huge amounts of nontextual information, audio, video, and images, along with more familiar textual information. The potential for...
— In this paper, a new statistical model is proposed for modeling the nature images in the transform domain. We demonstrate that the von Mises distribution (VM) fits accurately ...