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SIGIR
1999
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
IDEAS
1997
IEEE
107views Database» more  IDEAS 1997»
15 years 4 months ago
Query Processing in the ROL system
The ROL system is a novel deductive object-oriented database system that has been implemented at the University of Regina. It provides a uniform rule-based declarative language fo...
Mengchi Liu, Weidong Yu
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
123views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
15 years 12 months ago
Query-based partitioning of documents and indexes for information lifecycle management
Regulations require businesses to archive many electronic documents for extended periods of time. Given the sheer volume of documents and the response time requirements, documents...
Soumyadeb Mitra, Marianne Winslett, Windsor W. Hsu
EDBT
2006
ACM
127views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
15 years 12 months ago
Progressive Query Optimization for Federated Queries
Federated queries are regular relational queries accessing data on one or more remote relational or non-relational data sources, possibly combining them with tables stored in the ...
Stephan Ewen, Holger Kache, Volker Markl, Vijaysha...
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
115views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
15 years 12 months ago
Temporal Coalescing with Now, Granularity, and Incomplete Information
This paper presents a novel strategy for temporal coalescing. Temporal coalescing merges the temporal extents of value-equivalent tuples. A temporal extent is usually coalesced of...
Curtis E. Dyreson