— Previous studies on supporting keyword queries in RDBMSs provide users with a ranked list of relevant linked structures (e.g. joined tuples) or individual tuples. In this paper...
Bolin Ding, Bo Zhao, Cindy Xide Lin, Jiawei Han, C...
Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
Recently, systems providing access to extremely large data collections, managed in a distributed manner, gain emerging attention. A promising approach to implement the physical la...
There is a reservoir of knowledge in data from the TREC evaluations that analysis of precision and recall leaves untapped. This knowledge leads to better understanding of query ex...
Ordering and ranking items of different types are important tasks in various applications, such as query processing and scientific data mining. A total order for the items can be ...