A pressing task during the unification process is to identify a user's vertical search intention based on the user's query. In this paper, we propose a novel method to p...
Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Weiguo Fan, Qiang Yang, Zheng C...
Sensor networks can be viewed as large distributed databases, and SQL-like high-level declarative languages can be used for data and information retrieval. Energy constraints make ...
Content-based image retrieval in astronomy needs methods that can deal with an image content made of noisy and diffuse structures. This motivates investigations on how information ...
Many modern database applications require content-based similarity search capability in numeric attribute space. Further, users' notion of similarity varies between search se...
Near-synonyms are useful knowledge resources for many natural language applications such as query expansion for information retrieval (IR) and paraphrasing for text generation. Ho...