Annotations are an important part in today’s digital libraries and Web information systems as an instrument for interactive knowledge creation. Annotation-based document retrieva...
In this paper we introduce POLAR, a probabilistic objectoriented logical framework for annotation-based information retrieval. In POLAR, the knowledge about digital objects, annot...
Schema matching is the problem of finding correspondences (mapping rules, e.g. logical formulae) between heterogeneous schemas e.g. in the data exchange domain, or for distribute...
There is an increasing need of development of automatic tools to annotate images for effective image searching in digital libraries. In this paper, we present a novel probabilistic...
With the wide diffusion of digital image acquisition devices,
the cost of managing hundreds of digital images is quickly increasing.
Currently, the main way to search digital ima...