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ADBIS
2010
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting the Semantics of Location Granules in Location-Dependent Queries
Abstract. The need for location-based services has motivated an important research effort in the efficient processing of location-dependent queries. Most of the existing approaches...
Carlos Bobed, Sergio Ilarri, Eduardo Mena
ELPUB
1998
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Towards an Information-Rich Society? Or an Information-Overloaded One? (Is the Media Becoming More Important Than the Message?)
The rapid growth in all forms of electronic publishing is creating many new problems – both technical and socio-economic. This paper examines some of these from three different ...
T. M. R. Ellis
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Building Ranked Mashups of Unstructured Sources with Uncertain Information
Mashups are situational applications that join multiple sources to better meet the information needs of Web users. Web sources can be huge databases behind query interfaces, which...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Mina Saleeb
VLDB
2011
ACM
251views Database» more  VLDB 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
Harvesting relational tables from lists on the web
A large number of web pages contain data structured in the form of “lists”. Many such lists can be further split into multi-column tables, which can then be used in more seman...
Hazem Elmeleegy, Jayant Madhavan, Alon Y. Halevy
NLDB
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Text Segmentation Based on Document Understanding for Information Retrieval
Information retrieval needs to match relevant texts with a given query. Selecting appropriate parts is useful when documents are long, and only portions are interesting to the user...
Violaine Prince, Alexandre Labadié