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JASIS
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Does topic metadata help with Web search?
It has been claimed that topic metadata can be used to improve the accuracy of text searches. Here, we test this claim by examining the contribution of metadata to effective search...
David Hawking, Justin Zobel
ICDE
2010
IEEE
219views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
PIP: A Database System for Great and Small Expectations
Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...
Oliver Kennedy, Christoph Koch
DEXAW
2009
IEEE
125views Database» more  DEXAW 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Comparison Between Manually and Automatically Assigned Descriptors Based on a German Bibliographic Collection
—This paper compares and illustrates the use of manually and automatically assigned descriptors on German documents extracted from the GIRT Corpus. A second objective is to analy...
Claire Fautsch, Jacques Savoy
PVLDB
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Approximate lineage for probabilistic databases
In probabilistic databases, lineage is fundamental to both query processing and understanding the data. Current systems s.a. Trio or Mystiq use a complete approach in which the li...
Christopher Ré, Dan Suciu
CJ
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic Approaches to Estimating the Quality of Information in Military Sensor Networks
an be used to abstract away from the physical reality by describing it as components that exist in discrete states with probabilistically invoked actions that change the state. The...
Duncan Gillies, David Thornley, Chatschik Bisdikia...