Emerging Web standards promise a network of heterogeneous yet interoperable Web Services. Web Services would greatly simplify the development of many kinds of information agents a...
Speech is a tantalizing mode of human communication. On one hand, humans understand speech with ease and use speech to express complex ideas, information, and knowledge. On the ot...
Eric W. Brown, Savitha Srinivasan, Anni Coden, Dul...
In this paper we are mainly concerned with discussion of a formal model, based on the basic concept of divergence from information theory, for automatic query expansion. The basic...
In this paper, we propose an innovative approach to extracting semi-structured data from Web sources. The idea is to collect a couple of example objects from the user and to use t...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Alberto H. F. Laender, A...
Even though there is nothing new about the idea, ontologies are a hot topic. Built for many reasons and appliances, the use of ontologies in real-life applications remains limited...