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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
To index or not to index: time-space trade-offs in search engines with positional ranking functions
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Diego Arroyuelo, Senén González, Mau...
ICALP
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Constant-Round Private Database Queries
We consider several private database query problems. The starting point of this work is the element rank problem: the server holds a database of n integers, and the user an integer...
Nenad Dedic, Payman Mohassel
EDBT
2008
ACM
161views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
16 years 3 months ago
Load distribution of analytical query workloads for database cluster architectures
Enterprises may have multiple database systems spread across the organization for redundancy or for serving different applications. In such systems, query workloads can be distrib...
Thomas Phan, Wen-Syan Li
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Extracting structured information from user queries with semi-supervised conditional random fields
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
173views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2008»
15 years 9 months ago
Automatic video annotation through search and mining
Conventional approaches to video annotation predominantly focus on supervised identification of a limited set of concepts, while unsupervised annotation with infinite vocabulary...
Emily Moxley, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Wei-Ying Ma...