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WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Optimizing scoring functions and indexes for proximity search in type-annotated corpora
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Kriti Puniyani, Sujatha Das
SIGGRAPH
2010
ACM
14 years 5 days ago
Toward evaluating material design interface paradigms for novice users
Material design is the process by which artists specify the reflectance properties of a surface, such as its diffuse color and specular roughness. We present a user study to eval...
William B. Kerr, Fabio Pellacini
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval
Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
VLDB
2007
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Ad-hoc Top-k Query Answering for Data Streams
A top-k query retrieves the k highest scoring tuples from a data set with respect to a scoring function defined on the attributes of a tuple. The efficient evaluation of top-k q...
Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nick Koudas, Niko...
VLDB
1992
ACM
151views Database» more  VLDB 1992»
13 years 11 months ago
Parallelism in a Main-Memory DBMS: The Performance of PRISMA/DB
This paper evaluates the performance of the parallel, main-memory DBMS, PRISMA/DB. First, an architecture for parallel query execution is presented. A performance model for the ex...
Annita N. Wilschut, Jan Flokstra, Peter M. G. Aper...