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SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Efficient Distributed Algorithms to Build Inverted Files
We present three distributed algorithms to build global inverted files for very large text collections. The distributed environment we use is a high bandwidth network of workstati...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Edleno Silva de Moura, M...
SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Comparing the Performance of Database Selection Algorithms
Abstract We compare the performance of two database selection algorithms reported in the literature. Their performance is compared using a common testbed designed specifically for ...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, James P. Calla...
SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
SCAN: Designing and Evaluating User Interfaces to Support Retrieval From Speech Archives
Previous examinations of search in textual archives have assumed that users first retrieve a ranked set of documents relevant to their query, and then visually scan through these ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Dona...