Information on the Web is not only abundant but also redundant. This redundancy of information has an important consequence on the relation between the recall of an information ga...
A map is one of the most useful media in disseminating spatial information. As mobile devices are becoming increasingly powerful and ubiquitous, new possibilities to access map in...
John D. Garofalakis, Michail Theofanis-Aristofanis...
A collaborative crawler is a group of crawling nodes, in which each crawling node is responsible for a specific portion of the web. We study the problem of collecting geographical...
The high availability of video streams is making necessary mechanisms for indexing such contents in the Web world. In this paper we focus on news programs and we propose a mechani...
A severe potential security problem in utilization of Unicode in the Web is identified, which is resulted from the fact that there are many similar characters in the Unicode Chara...
Anthony Y. Fu, Wan Zhang, Xiaotie Deng, Liu Wenyin
In this paper, we present a system we have developed for automatic TV News video indexing that successfully combines results from the fields of speaker verification, acoustic anal...
In this paper we describe a solution for incorporating background knowledge into the OntoGen system for semi-automatic ontology construction. This makes it easier for different us...
The union of Interactive Digital TV (IDTV) and Web promotes the development of new interactive multimedia services, enjoyable while watching TV even on the new handheld digital TV...
Stefano Ferretti, Marco Roccetti, Johannes Andrich
XML is fast becoming the standard format to store, exchange and publish over the web, and is getting embedded in applications. Two challenges in handling XML are its size (the XML...
Paolo Ferragina, Fabrizio Luccio, Giovanni Manzini...
Classification of documents by genre is typically done either using linguistic analysis or term frequency based techniques. The former provides better classification accuracy than...