Ranking queries report the top-K results according to a user-defined scoring function. A widely used scoring function is the weighted summation of multiple scores. Often times, u...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinen...
Abstract. As part of a larger project, we have built a declarative assembly language that enables us to specify multiple code paths to compute particular quantities, giving the ins...
Wolfram Kahl, Christopher Kumar Anand, Jacques Car...
We address a specific enterprise document search scenario, where the information need is expressed in an elaborate manner. In our scenario, information needs are expressed using a...
Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke
This paper addresses the various facets of emergent semantics in content retrieval systems such as Knowledge Sifter, an architecture and system based on the use of specialized agen...
Many aspects of the data integration problem have been considered in the literature: how to match schemas across different data sources, how to decide when different records refer...