An ontology is a formal conceptualization of a domain, specifying the concepts of the domain and the relations between them. It is however not a straight forward task to use this ...
In this paper, we reported some experiments conducted by our members in the SIG team at the IRIT laboratory in the University of Toulouse within the context of the medical informat...
This paper analyses reported difficulties in spatial data retrieval from Internet portals, based on results from an empirical survey. The analysis reveals the problems which cause ...
In some information retrieval scenarios, for example internal help desk systems, texts are entered into the document collection without proofreading. This can result in a relative...
This paper describes the design and implementation of an embedded-type XML storage and retrieval system which is built on top of relational databases. The proposed system stores ea...