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WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
CWS: a comparative web search system
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
Jian-Tao Sun, Xuanhui Wang, Dou Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng...
SIGIR
1996
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Performance Evaluation of a Distributed Architecture for Information Retrieval
Information explosion across the Internet and elsewhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to e ectively access these collections, i...
Brendon Cahoon, Kathryn S. McKinley
SIGMOD
1993
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 1993»
15 years 8 months ago
Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates
The traditional focus of relational query optimization schemes has been on the choice of join methods and join orders. Restrictions have typically been handled in query optimizers ...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker
EDBT
2009
ACM
207views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
15 years 7 months ago
Evaluating probability threshold k-nearest-neighbor queries over uncertain data
In emerging applications such as location-based services, sensor monitoring and biological management systems, the values of the database items are naturally imprecise. For these ...
Reynold Cheng, Lei Chen 0002, Jinchuan Chen, Xike ...
INTERACT
2003
15 years 5 months ago
What Makes a Good Answer? The Role of Context in Question Answering
: Question answering systems have proven to be helpful to users because they can provide succinct answers that do not require users to wade through a large number of documents. How...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...