This thesis investigates the question whether and how ontologies such as the ones currently evolving in the Semantic Web can serve as knowledge structures for the generation of que...
This paper investigates query translation in cross-lingual information retrieval, especially the challenges caused by ambiguity and polysemi. We base our ideas on feature vectors a...
To ensure access to growing video collections, annotation is becoming more and more important. Using background knowledge in the form of ontologies or thesauri is a way to facilit...
o abstract describes the SmartWeb Ontology-based Annotation system (SOBA). A key feature of SOBA is that all information is extracted and stored with respect to the SmartWeb Integ...
Paul Buitelaar, Thomas Eigner, Greg Gul-rajani, Al...
The role of ontologies in knowledge base systems is gradually increasing. Along with the growth of Internet based applications and ecommerce, the need for easy interoperability bet...