The similarity join is an important database primitive which has been successfully applied to speed up applications such as similarity search, data analysis and data mining. The s...
Measuring the similarity between documents and queries has been extensively studied in information retrieval. However, there are a growing number of tasks that require computing th...
This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve web search. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their f...
Abstract. It the becomes possible that users can get kinds of information by just inputting search keyword(s) representing the topic which users are interested in. But it is not al...
Similarity search has been proved suitable for searching in very large collections of unstructured data objects. We are interested in efficient parallel query processing under si...