Information Retrieval (IR) systems are built with different goals in mind. Some IR systems target high precision that is to have more relevant documents on the first page of their...
We present the Priority R-tree, or PR-tree, which is the first R-tree variant that always answers a window query using O((N/B)1-1/d + T/B) I/Os, where N is the number of ddimensio...
Lars Arge, Mark de Berg, Herman J. Haverkort, Ke Y...
The core idea of the Semantic Web is to make information accessible to human and software agents on a semantic basis. Hence, web sites may feed directly from the Semantic Web explo...
Alexander Maedche, Steffen Staab, Nenad Stojanovic...
PiQASso is a Question Answering system based on a combination of modern IR techniques and a series of semantic filters for selecting paragraphs containing a justifiable answer. Se...
Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Cisternino, Francesco Fo...
In this paper, we give results relevant to sequential and distributed dynamic data structures for finding nearest neighbors in growth-restricted metrics. Our sequential data struc...
Kirsten Hildrum, John Kubiatowicz, Sean Ma, Satish...