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GIS
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Improving the R*-tree with outlier handling techniques
The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
Tian Xia, Donghui Zhang
CORR
1998
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Indexing with WordNet synsets can improve Text Retrieval
The classical, vector space model for text retrieval is shown to give better results (up to 29% better in our experiments) if WordNet synsets are chosen as the indexing space, ins...
Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo, Irina Chugur, Juan ...
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Graph Indexing of Road Networks for Shortest Path Queries with Label Restrictions
The current widespread use of location-based services and GPS technologies has revived interest in very fast and scalable shortest path queries. We introduce a new shortest path q...
Michael Rice, Vassilis J. Tsotras
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Performance of compressed inverted list caching in search engines
Due to the rapid growth in the size of the web, web search engines are facing enormous performance challenges. The larger engines in particular have to be able to process tens of ...
Jiangong Zhang, Xiaohui Long, Torsten Suel
CIKM
2001
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting A Controlled Vocabulary to Improve Collection Selection and Retrieval Effectiveness
Vocabulary incompatibilities arise when the terms used to index a document collection are largely unknown, or at least not well-known to the users who eventually search the collec...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Fredric C. Gey...