Ad-hoc data processing has proven to be a critical paradigm for Internet companies processing large volumes of unstructured data. However, the emergence of cloud-based computing, ...
Query segmentation is essential to query processing. It aims to tokenize query words into several semantic segments and help the search engine to improve the precision of retrieva...
Chao Zhang, Nan Sun, Xia Hu, Tingzhu Huang, Tat-Se...
In the era of digital information, the value of data resides not only in its volume and quality, but also in the additional information that can be inferred from the combination (a...
Daniele Braga, Francesco Corcoglioniti, Michael Gr...
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...