This paper provides an overview of experiments carried out at the TREC 2004 Terabyte Track using the Indri search engine. Indri is an efficient, effective distributed search engin...
Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, Howard R. Turtle,...
The Symbolic Probabilistic Inference (SPI) Algorithm [D'Ambrosio, 19891 provides an efficient framework for resolving general queries on a belief network. It applies the conc...
Ross D. Shachter, Bruce D'Ambrosio, Brendan Del Fa...
We present a distributed index data structure and algorithms devised to support parallel query processing of multimedia content in search engines. We present a comparative study wi...
In this paper, we present an automated, quantitative, knowledge-poor method to evaluate the randomness of a collection of documents (corpus), with respect to a number of biased pa...
While standardization efforts for XML query languages have been progressing, researchers and users increasingly focus on the database technology that has to deliver on the new cha...
Albrecht Schmidt 0002, Florian Waas, Martin L. Ker...