The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...
Given a set of n query points in a general metric space, a metricspace skyline (MSS) query asks what are the closest points to all these query points in the database. Here, consid...
Abstract. XML query processors suffer from main-memory limitations that prevent them from processing large XML documents. While content-based predicates can be used to project down...
Spam pages on the web use various techniques to artificially achieve high rankings in search engine results. Human experts can do a good job of identifying spam pages and pages wh...
In traditional Information Retrieval (IR), user profiles are often represented by keyword/concepts space vectors or by some predefined categories. Unfortunately, this data is often...