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PODS
2006
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Cache-oblivious string B-trees
B-trees are the data structure of choice for maintaining searchable data on disk. However, B-trees perform suboptimally ? when keys are long or of variable length, ? when keys are...
Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Bradley C...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Finding relevant documents using top ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative schemes
In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are ex...
Ryen White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
AVI
2004
13 years 8 months ago
3Book: a 3D electronic smart book
This paper describes the 3Book, a 3D interactive visualization of a codex book as a component for various digital library and sensemaking systems. The book is designed to hold lar...
Stuart K. Card, Lichan Hong, Jock D. Mackinlay, Ed...
WAIM
2004
Springer
14 years 2 days ago
Semantic Search in the WWW Supported by a Cognitive Model
Abstract. Most users of the WWW want their searches to be effective. Currently, there exists a wide variety of efficient syntactic tools that have can be used for search in the WWW...
Katia Wechsler, Jorge A. Baier, Miguel Nussbaum, R...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 days ago
Effectiveness of web page classification on finding list answers
List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua