This paper presents the method for retrieving and summarizing changes in topics from online resources. Users often want to know what are the major changes in their areas of intere...
A learned lesson, in the context of a pre-defined organizational process, summarizes an experience that should be used to modify that process, under the conditions for which that l...
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...
Queries containing outer joins are common in data warehousing applications. Materialized outer-join views could greatly speed up many such queries but most database systems do not...