Abstract. Geographic named entities can be classified into many subtypes that are useful for applications such as information extraction and question answering. In this paper, we ...
Abstract. Decision-makers in critical fields such as medicine and finance make use of a wide range of information available over the Internet. Mediation, a data integration techn...
We investigate randomised algorithms for subset matching with spatial point sets—given two sets of d-dimensional points: a data set T consisting of n points and a pattern P consi...
Complex search tasks that utilize information from several data sources, are answered by integrating the results of distinct basic search queries. In such integration, each basic ...
HyREX is the Hypermedia Retrieval Engine for XML. Its extensibility is based on the implementation of physical data independence; its query interface on the conceptual level consis...