—Traditional search systems are usually based on keywords, a very simple and convenient mechanism to express a need for information. This is the most extended way of searching th...
High retrieval precision in content-based image retrieval can be attained by adopting relevance feedback mechanisms. These mechanisms require that the user judges the quality of t...
Abstract. The World Wide Web has provided users with the opportunity to access from any computer the largest set of information ever existing. Researchers have analyzed how such us...
In many text retrieval tasks, it is highly desirable to obtain a "similarity profile" of the document collection for a given query. We propose sampling-based techniques ...
This paper introduces an approach to mapping relational database contents to ontologies. The current effort is motivated by the need of including into the Semantic Web volumes of w...