Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...
An ever-increasing amount of information on the Web today is available only through search interfaces: the users have to type in a set of keywords in a search form in order to acc...
Three join algorithms are evaluated in an environment with distributed main-memory based mediators and data sources. A streamed ship-out join ships bulks of tuples to a mediator ne...
In automated text categorization, given a small number of labeled documents, it is very challenging, if not impossible, to build a reliable classifier that is able to achieve high...
Zenglin Xu, Rong Jin, Kaizhu Huang, Michael R. Lyu...
A growing trend in commercial search engines is the display of specialized content such as news, products, etc. interleaved with web search results. Ideally, this content should b...