In this paper, we propose to use database technology to improve performance of web proxy servers. We view the cache at a proxy server as a web warehouse with data organized in a h...
Images are increasingly being embedded in HTML documents on the WWW. Such documents over the WWW essentially provides a rich source of image collection from which users can query....
Typically, searching for information in a document collection amounts to refining a query and then scanning a large number of documents to determine their relevance. Active Summar...
The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...
Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...