Abstract. We investigate the potential of coherence-based scores to predict query difficulty. The coherence of a document set associated with each query word is used to capture the...
To add time su port to the relational model, both first normal form (fNF and non-INF appmches have maining within 1NF when time support is added may introduce data redundancy. The...
Christian S. Jensen, Michael D. Soo, Richard T. Sn...
Abstract The explosion of content in distributed information retrieval (IR) systems requires new mechanisms to attain timely and accurate retrieval of unstructured text. In this pa...
Reading and perceiving complex SQL queries has been a time consuming task in traditional database applications for decades. When it comes to decision support systems with automati...
Ling Hu, Kenneth A. Ross, Yuan-Chi Chang, Christia...
PLASTIC [1] is a recently-proposed tool to help query optimizers significantly amortize optimization overheads through a technique of plan recycling. The tool groups similar quer...