Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Current search engines do not support user searches for chemical entities (chemical names and formulae) beyond simple keyword searches. Usually a chemical molecule can be represen...
The emergence of multimedia data in databases requires adequate methods for information retrieval. In a music data retrieval system by humming, the first stage is to extract exact...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...