Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...
Primary B+ -tree, a variant of B+ -tree structure with row data in leaf blocks, is an ideal storage organization for queries involving exact match and/or range search on primary k...
In this paper we process and analyze web search engine query and click data from the perspective of the documents (URL’s) selected. We initially define possible document categor...
To deal with the issue of data unbalanced condition among a task of multilingual speech recognition and a phenomenon of pronunciation variations across languages, we propose an ap...
Large sparse matrices play important role in many modern information retrieval methods. These methods, such as clustering, latent semantic indexing, performs huge number of computa...