We compared two different interfaces to the InQuery IR system with respect to their support for the TREC-9 Interactive Track Question-Answering task. One interface presented searc...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Amymarie Keller, Diane Kelly, ...
The performance of parallel query processing in a cluster of index servers is crucial for modern web search systems. In such a scenario, the response time basically depends on the...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...
Much information over the Internet is expressed by natural languages. The management of linguistic information involves an operation of comparison and aggregation. In this paper, ...
Schema evolution poses serious challenges in historical data management. Traditionally historical data have been archived either by (i) migrating them into the current schema vers...
Hyun J. Moon, Carlo Curino, MyungWon Ham, Carlo Za...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...