Recent work on incremental crawling has enabled the indexed document collection of a search engine to be more synchronized with the changing World Wide Web. However, this synchron...
Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Sriram Padmanabhan, Jeffrey...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...
The problem of storing a set of strings – a string dictionary – in compact form appears naturally in many cases. While classically it has represented a small part of the whole ...
Management and retrieval of large volumes of text can be expensive in both space and time. Moreover, the range of document sizes in a large collection such as trec presents difficu...
Alistair Moffat, Ron Sacks-Davis, Ross Wilkinson, ...
Video document retrieval is now an active part of the domain of multimedia retrieval. However, unlike for other media, the management of a collection of video documents adds the pr...