In this paper, we introduce the concept of a QA-Pagelet to refer to the content region in a dynamic page that contains query matches. We present THOR, a scalable and efficient min...
We study the expressiveness and performance of full-text search languages. Our main motivation is to provide a formal basis for comparing such languages and to develop a model for...
This paper describes the design and implementation of an XML storage manager for fast and interactive XPath expressions evaluation. This storage manager has two main parts: the XML...
Abstract. We propose an original solution for the general reverse k-nearest neighbor (RkNN) search problem in Euclidean spaces. Compared to the limitations of existing methods for ...
Abstract. Huge amounts of digital visual content are currently available, thus placing a demand for advanced multimedia search engines. The contribution of this paper is the presen...