Table is a commonly used presentation scheme, especially for describing relational information. However, table understanding remains an open problem. In this paper, we consider th...
Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...
This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
Recent growth of social classification systems due to steadily increasing popularity has established a multitude of heterogeneous isolated, non-integrated, and non-interoperable t...
Visual summarization is an attractive new scheme to summarize web pages, which can help achieve a more friendly user experience in search and re-finding tasks by allowing users qu...