Focusing on the context of XML retrieval, in this paper we propose a general methodology for managing structured queries (involving both content and structure) within any given st...
— A paramount challenge in probabilistic databases is the scalable computation of confidences of tuples in query results. This paper introduces an efficient secondary-storage o...
In this paper a new automatic approach to road extraction from aerial images is proposed. This method improves a recently introduced promising approach to probabilistic contour tr...
Information Extraction (IE) systems that extract role fillers for events typically look at the local context surrounding a phrase when deciding whether to extract it. Often, howev...
In this paper we address the problem of extracting key pieces of information from voicemail messages, such as the identity and phone number of the caller. This task differs from t...