Web Image Context Extraction: Methoden und Evaluation [Elektronische Ressource] / Sadet Alcic. Gutachter: Michael Schöttner. Betreuer: Stefan Conrad

Web Image Context Extraction:Methods and EvaluationInaugural-DissertationzurErlangung des Doktorgrades derMathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultat¨der Heinrich-Heine-Universita¨t Du¨sseldorfvorgelegt vonSadet Alcicaus LeskovacOktober 2011Aus dem Institut fur Informatik¨der Heinrich-Heine Universita¨t Du¨sseldorfGedruckt mit der Genehmigung derMathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakulta¨t derHeinrich-Heine-Universita¨t Du¨sseldorfReferent: Prof. Dr. Stefan ConradKoreferent: Prof. Dr. Michael Scho¨ttnerTag der mu¨ndlichen Pru¨fung: 24.11.2011Dedicated toIm`eneAcknowledgementsThis thesis is the outcome of my four years Ph.D. research at the Databases andInformationSystemsInstituteoftheDepartmentofComputerScienceattheHeinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf.First, I would like to thank my supervisor Prof. Dr. Stefan Conrad for all his time,support and feedback. It was a great pleasure for me to work under his supervisi-on. Stefan has the ability to transform a vague formulated problem into a clear andsolvable question, and I always left our meetings feeling more optimistic then when Ientered them. I also want to thank the second reviewer of this thesis, Prof. Dr. Mi-chael Sch¨ottner, for his interest in my work and willingness to be the second referee.My special compliments go my former colleagues at the database group JohannaVompras andKatrinZaiß.