A large number of database index structures have been proposed over the last two decades, and little consensus has emerged regarding their relative e ectiveness. In order to empir...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Lisa Hellerstein, George Ko...
Word sketches are part of the Sketch Engine corpus query system. They represent automatic, corpus-derived summaries of the words' grammatical and collocational behaviour. Bes...
Kremena Ivanova, Ulrich Heid, Sabine Schulte im Wa...
Many applications compute aggregate functions over an attribute (or set of attributes) to find aggregate values above some specified threshold. We call such queries iceberg querie...
Min Fang, Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Moli...
The current widespread use of location-based services and GPS technologies has revived interest in very fast and scalable shortest path queries. We introduce a new shortest path q...
One of the fundamental challenges in designing an image retrieval system is choosing a method by which the images that match a given query are presented to the searcher. Traditiona...