Most Internet search engines are keyword-based. They are not efficient for the queries where geographical location is important, such as finding hotels within an area or close to ...
Our KNOWITALL system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an autonomous, domain...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
The W3C's Geolocation API may rapidly standardize the transmission of location information on the Web, but, in dealing with such sensitive information, it also raises serious...
Location-Based Services (LBS) are based on a combination of the inherent location information about specific data, and/or the location information supplied by LBS clients, reques...
Web Directories have emerged as an alternative to the Search Engines for locating information on the Web. Typically, Web Directories rely on humans putting in significant time and ...
Sofia Stamou, Alexandros Ntoulas, Vlassis Krikos, ...