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EDBT
2012
ACM
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13 years 2 months ago
An optimization framework for map-reduce queries
We present an effective optimization framework for general SQLlike map-reduce queries, which is based on a novel query algebra and uses a small number of higher-order physical ope...
Leonidas Fegaras, Chengkai Li, Upa Gupta
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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Action modeling: language models that predict query behavior
We present a novel language modeling approach to capturing the query reformulation behavior of Web search users. Based on a framework that categorizes eight different types of “...
G. Craig Murray, Jimmy J. Lin, Abdur Chowdhury
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Retrieval system evaluation: automatic evaluation versus incomplete judgments
In information retrieval (IR), research aiming to reduce the cost of retrieval system evaluations has been conducted along two lines: (i) the evaluation of IR systems with reduced...
Claudia Hauff, Franciska de Jong
SBBD
2003
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15 years 1 months ago
Cherry Picking: A Semantic Query Processing Strategy for the Evaluation of Expensive Predicates
A common requirement of many scientific applications is the ability to process queries involving expensive predicates corresponding to user programs. Optimizing such queries is ha...
Fabio Porto, Eduardo Sany Laber, Patrick Valduriez
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Divide, Compress and Conquer: Querying XML via Partitioned Path-Based Compressed Data Blocks
We propose a novel Partition Path-Based (PPB) grouping strategy to store compressed XML data in a stream of blocks. In addition, we employ a minimal indexing scheme called Block S...
Wilfred Ng, Ho Lam Lau, Aoying Zhou