A growing mount of available text data are being stored in relational databases, giving rise to an increasing need for the RDBMSs to support effective text retrieval. In this pape...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
The Ambient Spotlight is a prototype system based on personal meeting capture using a laptop and a portable microphone array. The system automatically recognises and structures th...
The domain-specific track evaluates retrieval models for structured scientific bibliographic collections in English, German and Russian. Documents contain elements (title, abstrac...
This paper examines whether the Cranfield evaluation methodology is robust to gross violations of the completeness assumption (i.e., the assumption that all relevant documents wi...