The Cranfield evaluation method has some disadvantages, including its high cost in labor and inadequacy for evaluating interactive retrieval techniques. As a very promising alter...
We study the problem of creating highly compressed fulltext index structures for versioned document collections, that is, collections that contain multiple versions of each docume...
A wealth of information is available only in web pages, patents, publications etc. Extracting information from such sources is challenging, both due to the typically complex langu...
Modern search engines have to be fast to satisfy users, so there are hard back-end latency requirements. The set of features useful for search ranking functions, though, continues...
Feng Pan, Tim Converse, David Ahn, Franco Salvetti...
Abstract-- Large flash disks have become an attractive alternative to magnetic hard disks, due to their high random read performance, low energy consumption and other features. How...