It is widely believed that some queries submitted to search engines are by nature ambiguous (e.g., java, apple). However, few studies have investigated the questions of "how ...
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
The INESC Porto group has participated in the search task (automatic and interactive). Our approach combines high-level features (the 39 concepts of the LSCOM-Lite set) with low-l...
Catalin Calistru, Cristina Ribeiro, Gabriel David,...
—This paper presents IQP - a novel approach to bridge the gap between usability of keyword search and expressiveness of database queries. IQP enables a user to start with an arbi...
The Smart information retrieval project emphasizes completely automatic approaches to the understanding and retrieval of large quantities of text. We continue our work in TREC 3, ...
Chris Buckley, Gerard Salton, James Allan, Amit Si...