Several IR tasks rely, to achieve high efficiency, on a single pervasive data structure called the inverted index. This is a mapping from the terms in a text collection to the docu...
Most existing information retrieval (IR) systems do not take much advantage of natural language processing (NLP) techniques due to the complexity and limited observed effectivenes...
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...
Given the continuous growth of databases and the abundance of diverse files in modern IT environments, there is a pressing need to integrate keyword search on heterogeneous inform...
Missing web pages, URIs that return the 404 “Page Not Found” error or the HTTP response code 200 but dereference unexpected content, are ubiquitous in today’s browsing exper...
Martin Klein, Jeffery L. Shipman, Michael L. Nelso...