The expanding and dynamic nature of the Web poses enormous challenges to most data mining techniques that try to extract patterns from Web data, such as Web usage and Web content....
Humans tend to use high-level semantic concepts when querying and browsing multimedia databases; there is thus, a need for systems that extract these concepts and make available a...
Abstract. In this paper we investigate the possibility of an automatic construction of conceptual taxonomies and evaluate the achievable results. The hierarchy is performed by Ward...
We present GoGetIt!, a tool for generating structure-driven crawlers that requires a minimum effort from the users. The tool takes as input a sample page and an entry point to a W...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Edleno Silva de Moura, J...
Abstract— People in densely populated environments typically form groups that split and merge. In this paper we track groups of people so as to reflect this formation process an...