The problems of query containment, equivalence, and minimization are recognized as very important in the context of query processing, specifically of query optimization. In their...
Abstract-- Inverted files have been very successful for document retrieval, but sponsored search is different. Inverted files are designed to find documents that match the query (a...
Retrieval in a multimedia database usually involves combining information from different modalities of data, such as text and images. However, all modalities of the data may not b...
Abraham Bagherjeiran, Nicole S. Love, Chandrika Ka...
Based on the recent progress of digital cartography, global positioning systems (GPSs), and hand-held devices, there are growing needs of technology that provides neighborhood inf...
In this paper, we proposed a unified strategy to combine query log and search results for query suggestion. In this way, we leverage both the users' search intentions for pop...