This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...
To effectively support today's global economy, database systems need to manage data in multiple languages simultaneously. While current database systems do support the storag...
Existing xml query pattern-based caching strategies focus on extracting the set of frequently issued query pattern trees (qpt) based on the support of the qpts in the history. Thes...
The largest databases in use today are so large that answering a query exactly can take minutes, hours, or even days. One way to address this problem is to make use of approximati...
Chris Jermaine, Alin Dobra, Abhijit Pol, Shantanu ...
Much attention has been paid to the relative effectiveness of interactive query expansion versus automatic query expansion. Although interactive query expansion has the potential ...