The present work covers a comparison of the text retrieval qualities of open source relational databases and Lucene, which is a full text search engine library, over English docume...
Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...
Recent work has shown that we can dramatically improve the performance of computer games and simulations through declarative processing: Character AI can be written in an imperati...
Ben Sowell, Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Nitin...
— Many data-intensive websites use databases that grow much faster than the rate that users access the data. Such growing datasets lead to ever-increasing space and performance o...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...