Applications ranging from location-based services to multi-player online gaming require continuous query support to monitor, track, and detect events of interest among sets of mov...
As opposed to traditional Information Retrieval (IR) which views whole documents as atomic units of retrieval, XML IR processes XML elements as possible units of retrieval. Many o...
Many have speculated that classifying web pages can improve a search engine's ranking of results. Intuitively results should be more relevant when they match the class of a q...
Paul N. Bennett, Krysta Marie Svore, Susan T. Duma...
Indexes for large collections are often divided into shards that are distributed across multiple computers and searched in parallel to provide rapid interactive search. Typically,...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...