With the explosion in the amount of semi-structured data users access and store, there is a need for complex search tools to retrieve often very heterogeneous data in a simple and ...
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this article, we initiate research on the anytime ...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Ni...
Large collections of documents are commonly created around a database, where a typical database schema may contain hundreds of tables and thousands of columns. We developed a syst...
Carlos Garcia-Alvarado, Carlos Ordonez, Zhibo Chen...
Intelligent Web search engines are extremely popular now. Currently, only commercial centralized search engines like Google can process terabytes of Web data. Alternative search en...
Sergey Chernov, Pavel Serdyukov, Matthias Bender, ...