We propose a new ranking paradigm for relational databases called Structured Value Ranking (SVR). SVR uses structured data values to score (rank) the results of keyword search que...
Lin Guo, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Kevin S. Beyer,...
: This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the TopX search engine, an extensive framework for unified indexing and querying large collections of unstructured, semistructured...
Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a query is a popular problem in information retrieval. Methods that learn ranking functions are difficult to o...
This paper investigates the problem of incremental joins of multiple ranked data sets when the join condition is a list of arbitrary user-defined predicates on the input tuples. ...
Apostol Natsev, Yuan-Chi Chang, John R. Smith, Chu...
When a lack of data inhibits decision making, large scale what-if queries can be conducted over the uncertain parameter ranges. Such what-if queries can generate an overwhelming a...