Short assigned question-answering style tasks are often used as a probe to understand how users do search. While such assigned tasks are simple to test and are effective at elicit...
This paper presents a language identification technique that detects Latin-based languages of imaged documents without OCR. The proposed technique detects languages through the wo...
Parallel database systems have to support the effective parallelization of complex queries in multi-user mode, i.e. in combination with inter-query/inter-transaction parallelism. ...
We present a distributed index data structure and algorithms devised to support parallel query processing of multimedia content in search engines. We present a comparative study wi...
XML data is often modeled as node-labeled trees. In a structure-generic relational storage scheme, the structure of the XML data is shredded into pieces of a generic type, such as...