It is crucial in many information systems to organize short text segments, such as keywords in documents and queries from users, into a well-formed topic hierarchy. In this paper,...
Cost-based query optimizers need to estimate the selectivity of conjunctive predicates when comparing alternative query execution plans. To this end, advanced optimizers use multi...
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam M...
The size of Internet has been growing very fast and many documents appear every day in the Net. Users find many problems to obtain the information that they really need. In order t...
: Language offers human beings the ability to exchange information. Whether the information is understood or not depends on the structure, complexity and knowledge of the language....
The pervasiveness of location-acquisition technologies (GPS, GSM networks, etc.) enable people to conveniently log the location histories they visited with spatio-temporal data. T...