tion--the art of abstracting key content from one or more information sources--has become an integral part of everyday life. People keep abreast of world affairs by listening to ne...
The standard method for making the full content of audio and video material searchable and is to annotate it with humangenerated meta-data that describes the content in a way that...
Companies providing cloud-scale services have an increasing need to store and analyze massive data sets such as search logs and click streams. For cost and performance reasons, pr...
There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of modern Web languages, user tagging and annotation, and emerging robust NLP tools. These meaningful, semantic, ...
The need for incorporating preference querying in database technology is a very important issue in a variety of applications ranging from e-commerce to personalized search engines....