Despite the recent advances in search quality, the fast increase in the size of the Web collection has introduced new challenges for Web ranking algorithms. In fact, there are sti...
Bruno M. Fonseca, Paulo Braz Golgher, Bruno P&ocir...
Repositories of multimedia objects having multiple types of attributes e.g., image, text are becoming increasingly common. A selection on these attributes will typically produce n...
Background: Single-pass, partial sequencing of complementary DNA (cDNA) libraries generates thousands of chromatograms that are processed into high quality expressed sequence tags...
Charu G. Kumar, Richard LeDuc, George Gong, Levan ...
This paper describes the experiments conducted in the ad-hoc retrieval task of the Genomic track at TREC 2004. Different query expansion techniques based on the addition of keywor...
Estimates of predicate selectivities by database query optimizers often differ significantly from those actually encountered during query execution, leading to poor plan choices a...