In 'Associative Caching' each client computer keeps a copy of its query result sets in its own local database. The purpose is to reduce the size and frequency of queries ...
— The success of a P2P file-sharing network highly depends on the scalability and versatility of its search mechanism. Two particularly desirable search features are scope (abil...
The domain-specific track evaluates retrieval models for structured scientific bibliographic collections in English, German and Russian. Documents contain elements (title, abstrac...
The paper presents methods of retrieving blog posts containing opinions about an entity expressed in the query. The methods use a lexicon of subjective words and phrases compiled ...
In a state-of-the-art XML database, an XML query is evaluated as a sequence of structural joins in which positions of data nodes are used to perform each individual structural joi...