Information retrieval emerged as independent research area from traditional database management system more than a decade ago. This was driven by the increasing functional require...
preferred abstracting and indexing databases to full text. Librarians and information professionals want the choice to be able to purchase subject orientated packages of electronic...
Abstract. We study parallel and distributed compressed indexes. Compressed indexes are a new and functional way to index text strings. They exploit the compressibility of the text,...
Versioned document collections are collections that contain multiple versions of each document. Important examples are Web archives, Wikipedia and other wikis, or source code and ...
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 ...