A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher's intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits)...
In this paper we present a technique to optimize queries on deductive databases that use aggregate operations such as min, max, and “largest Ic values.” Our approach is based ...
Data mining aims at discovering important and previously unknown patterns from the dataset in the underlying database. Database mining performs mining directly on data stored in r...
The paper makes three points of significance for IR research: (1) The Cranfield paradigm of IR evaluation seems to lose power when one looks at human instead of system performance....
The dQUOB system satis es client need for speci c information from high-volume data streams. The data streams we speak of are the ow of data existing during large-scale visualizat...