We address the problem of building an index for a set D of n strings, where each string location is a subset of some finite integer alphabet of size , so that we can answer effici...
Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...
A pressing task during the unification process is to identify a user's vertical search intention based on the user's query. In this paper, we propose a novel method to p...
Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Weiguo Fan, Qiang Yang, Zheng C...
Text is a pervasive information type, and many applications require querying over text sources in addition to structured data. This paper studies the problem of query processing i...
In many applications, we find large video collections from different genres where the user is often only interested in one or two specific video genres. So, when users are queryin...