“History Teaches Everything, Including the Future”, wrote Alphonse de Lamartine in the nineteen century. Even if history cannot be really considered a predictive science, hist...
Today’s search engines are increasingly required to broaden their capabilities beyond free-text search. More complex features, such as supporting range constraints over numeric ...
Marcus Fontoura, Ronny Lempel, Runping Qi, Jason Y...
We present an approach for answering Entity Retrieval queries using click-through information in query log data from a commercial Web search engine. We compare results using click...
Bodo Billerbeck, Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Fi...
Search queries are typically very short, which means they are often underspecified or have senses that the user did not think of. A broad latent query aspect is a set of keywords ...
Searching for similar objects in metric-space databases can be efficiently solved by using index data structures. A number of alternative sequential indexes have been proposed in...