Web search engines are often presented with user queries that involve comparisons of real-world entities. Thus far, this interaction has typically been captured by users submittin...
WebPMI is a popular web-based association measure to evaluate the semantic similarity between two queries (i.e. words or entities) by leveraging search results returned by search ...
Hashing is one of the fundamental techniques used to implement query processing operators such as grouping, aggregation and join. This paper studies the interaction between modern...
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
XML and other semi-structured data may have partially specified or missing schema information, motivating the use of a structural summary which can be automatically computed from ...
Raghav Kaushik, Pradeep Shenoy, Philip Bohannon, E...