—We outline SoftFacts, an ontology mediated top-k information retrieval system over relational databases. An ontology layer is used to define (in terms of a OWL-QL like Semantic...
In this article we focus on the presentation of the inner structure of the database for the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system containing house images. The part devoted t...
In China-US Million Book Digital Library, output of the digitalization process is more than one terabyte of text in OEB and PDF format. To access these data quickly and accurately,...
In earlier work, we developed a fast method for 2-D shape retrieval based on point correspondences of silhouette contours. That method did not assume that the database shapes had ...
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...