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APWEB
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Sample Sizes for Query Probing in Uncooperative Distributed Information Retrieval
The goal of distributed information retrieval is to support effective searching over multiple document collections. For efficiency, queries should be routed to only those collectio...
Milad Shokouhi, Falk Scholer, Justin Zobel
IPM
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Using query logs to establish vocabularies in distributed information retrieval
Users of search engines express their needs as queries, typically consisting of a small number of terms. The resulting search engine query logs are valuable resources that can be ...
Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Seyed M. M. Tahaghog...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Distributed query sampling: a quality-conscious approach
We present an adaptive distributed query-sampling framework that is quality-conscious for extracting high-quality text database samples. The framework divides the query-based samp...
James Caverlee, Ling Liu, Joonsoo Bae
PODS
2005
ACM
151views Database» more  PODS 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Sampling search-engine results
We consider the problem of efficiently sampling Web search engine query results. In turn, using a small random sample instead of the full set of results leads to efficient approxi...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, David Carm...