Performance prediction has gained increasing attention in the IR field since the half of the past decade and has become an established research topic in the field. The present work...
Database indices provide a non-discriminative navigational infrastructure to localize tuples of interest. Their maintenance cost is taken during database updates. In this paper, w...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
Abstract. The database server is a crucial bottleneck in traditional inference control architecture, as it enforces highly computation-intensive auditing for all users who query th...
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
We investigate a topic at the interface of machine learning and cognitive science. Human active learning, where learners can actively query the world for information, is contraste...
Rui M. Castro, Charles Kalish, Robert Nowak, Ruich...