There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...
XML databases often contain documents comprising structured text. Therefore, it is important to integrate "information retrieval style" query evaluation, which is well-s...
The tremendous growth of system memories has increased the capacities and capabilities of memory-resident embedded databases, yet current embedded databases need to be tuned in or...
Jayaprakash Pisharath, Alok N. Choudhary, Mahmut T...
The normal practice of selecting relevant documents for training routing queries is to either use all relevants or the 'best n' of them after a (retrieval) ranking opera...
Inaccurate or ambiguous expressions in queries lead to poor results in information retrieval. We assume that iterative user feedback can improve the quality of queries. To this end...
Maher Ben Moussa, Marco Pasch, Djoerd Hiemstra, Pa...