Semistatic word-based byte-oriented compression codes are known to be attractive alternatives to compress natural language texts. With compression ratios around 30%, they allow di...
Index compression techniques are known to substantially decrease the storage requirements of a text retrieval system. As a side-effect, they may increase its retrieval performanc...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
We propose a new compression algorithm that is tailored to database applications. It can be applied to a collection of records, and is especially e ective for records with many lo...
Most queries to text search engines are ranked or Boolean. Phrase querying is a powerful technique for refining searches, but is expensive to implement on conventional indexes. I...