Abstract. This paper presents a simple unsupervised learning algorithm for recognizing synonyms, based on statistical data acquired by querying a Web search engine. The algorithm, ...
The huge amount of data available from Internet information sources has focused much attention on the sharing of distributed information through Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS...
In this paper, we introduce a geographic similarity operator that computes the relatedness between two geographic places and describe how it is combined with textual ranking. The ...
In this paper, we study the use of semantic information to improve performance of transparent query caching for dynamic content web sites. We observe that in dynamic content web a...
The automatic detection of semantic events in users’ image and video collections is an important technique for content management and retrieval. In this paper we propose a novel...