Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Today’s web is so huge and diverse that it arguably reflects the real world. For this reason, searching the web is a promising approach to find things in the real world. This ...
I report briefly on some of my own work in each of these areas and elucidate some of the questions that this research has raised. Then I propose as a research agenda the developme...
The spatio-textual spreadsheet is a conventional spreadsheet where spatial attribute values are specified textually. Techniques are presented to automatically find the textually-s...
Hanan Samet, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Jon Sperling,...
The ImageCLEF Photo Retrieval Task 2009 focused on image retrieval and diversity. A new collection was utilised in this task consisting of approximately half a million images with...
Monica Lestari Paramita, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clou...