Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
Due to their capability for expressing semantics and relationships among data objects, semi-structured documents have become a common way of representing domain knowledge. Compari...
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an abstract model for information sharing and integration and use it to develop an architecture for building open, component-based, interoperable systems. A geographic information ...
The emergence of new media technologies in combination with enhanced information sharing functionality offered by the Web provides new possibilities for cross-media annotations. T...
Many vertical search tasks such as local search focus on specific domains. The meaning of relevance in these verticals is domain-specific and usually consists of multiple well-d...
Changsung Kang, Xuanhui Wang, Yi Chang, Belle L. T...