The language modeling approach to retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. One advantage of this new approach is its statistical foundations. However, feedback, as on...
ADtrees, a data structure useful for caching sufficient statistics, have been successfully adapted to grow lazily when memory is limited and to update sequentially with an increme...
Robert Van Dam, Irene Langkilde-Geary, Dan Ventura
- In order to accomplish independence on the logical data organization, a relational DBMS must be capable of interpreting query language sentences which reference attributes belong...
Data uncertainty is ubiquitous in many real-world applications such as sensor/RFID data analysis. In this paper, we investigate uncertain data that exhibit local correlations, tha...
While the information published in the form of XML-compliant documents keeps fast mounting up, efficient and effective query processing and optimization for XML have now become mor...