We have developed a novel user interface technique for hypertext, called fluid links, that has several advantages over current methods. Fluid links provide additional information ...
The Internet consists of several billion documents. Choosing information from such a great number of Web pages is not easy. We do not think that the interfaces of traditional sear...
This paper introduces a visual query system for geographical information systems, which is easy to use for non-professional persons. The system creates a new iconic metaphor — a ...
Text mining concerns applying data mining techniques to unstructured text. Information extraction (IE) is a form of shallow text understanding that locates specific pieces of data...
Recently, language barrier becomes the major problem for people to search, retrieve, and understand WWW documents in different languages. This paper deals with query translation i...