The PageRank algorithm, used in the Google search engine, greatly improves the results of Web search by taking into account the link structure of the Web. PageRank assigns to a pa...
With the aim to improve the quality of gazetteers for geographic information retrieval systems, we present a method to detect place names employed by people submitting information...
Florian A. Twaroch, Philip D. Smart, Christopher B...
Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
Main approaches to corpus-based semantic class mining include distributional similarity (DS) and pattern-based (PB). In this paper, we perform an empirical comparison of them, bas...
Abstract. Increasingly large multimedia databases in life sciences, ecommerce, or monitoring applications cannot be browsed manually, but require automatic knowledge discovery in d...