Relevance feedback has been considered as a means of incorporating learning into information retrieval systems for quite sometime now. This paper discusses the research results of...
The need to access spatial data at multiple levels of detail is a fundamental requirement of many applications of geographical information, yet conventional spatial database access...
The spatio-textual spreadsheet is a conventional spreadsheet where spatial attribute values are specified textually. Techniques are presented to automatically find the textually-s...
Hanan Samet, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Jon Sperling,...
Several IR tasks rely, to achieve high efficiency, on a single pervasive data structure called the inverted index. This is a mapping from the terms in a text collection to the docu...
We present a new family of hybrid index maintenance strategies to be used in on-line index construction for monotonically growing text collections. These new strategies improve up...