The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...
Keyword search is a proven, user-friendly way to query HTML documents in the World Wide Web. We propose keyword search in XML documents, modeled as labeled trees, and describe cor...
With the growing popularity of streaming data model, processing queries over streaming data has become an important topic. Streaming data has received attention in a number of comm...
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
Most of Information Retrieval (IR) systems are still based on bag of word paradigm. This is a strong limitation if one needs high precision answers. For example, in restricted doma...