Abstract. As the number of web pages increases dramatically, the problem of the information overload becomes more severe when browsing and searching the WWW. To alleviate this prob...
Database technology is one of the cornerstones for the new millennium's IT landscape. However, database systems as a unit of code packaging and deployment are at a crossroad:...
—Online shopping has grown rapidly over the past few years. Besides the convenience of shopping directly from ones home, an important advantage of e-commerce is the great variety...
Information extraction (IE) — the problem of extracting structured information from unstructured text — has become an increasingly important topic in recent years. A SIGMOD 20...
Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, Fred...
Stand-alone ranking systems based on highly optimized inverted file structures are generally considered `the' solution for building search engines. Observing various developm...