Search personalization and diversification are often seen as opposing alternatives to cope with query uncertainty, where, given an ambiguous query, it is either preferable to adap...
Querying live media streams is a challenging problem that becomes an essential requirement in a growing number of applications. We address the problem of evaluating continuous quer...
Similarity queries in traditional databases work directly on attribute values. But, often similar attribute values do not indicate similar meanings. Semantic background information...
This paper proposes the compression of data in Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) using existing text compression algorithms. Although the technique proposed is general...
In this paper, we define and present a comprehensive classification of user intent for Web searching. The classification consists of three hierarchical levels of informational, na...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink