Clinical coding and classification processes transform natural language descriptions in clinical text into data that can subsequently be used for clinical care, research, and othe...
Mary H. Stanfill, Margaret Williams, Susan H. Fent...
There is a growing need to associate a variety of metadata with the underlying data, but a simple, elegant approach to uniformly model and query both the data and the metadata has...
We develop an infrastructure for managing, indexing and serving multimedia content in digital libraries. This infrastructure follows the model of the web, and thereby is distribut...
Arjen P. de Vries, Brian S. Eberman, David E. Kova...
In this paper, we present and evaluate alternative techniques to effect the use of location-independent identiļ¬ers in distributed database systems. Location-independent identiļ¬...
Part of the process of data integration is determining which sets of identifiers refer to the same real-world entities. In integrating databases found on the Web or obtained by us...