Abstract. Information Extraction, the process of eliciting data from natural language documents, usually relies on the ability to parse the document and then to detect the meaning ...
—In this paper we present a scalable and distributed system for image retrieval based on visual features and annotated text. This system is the core of the SAPIR project. Its arc...
A database application differs form regular applications in that some of its inputs may be database queries. The program will execute the queries on a database and may use any re...
Curated databases represent a substantial amount of effort by a dedicated group of people to produce a definitive description of some subject area. The value of curated databases ...
The convergence of the Grid and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) worlds has led to many solutions that try to efficiently solve the problem of resource discovery on Grids. Some of these solutio...