Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
— While structured P2P systems (such as DHTs) are often regarded as an improvement over unstructured P2P systems (such as super-peer networks) in terms of routing efficiency, it...
Yong Yang, Rocky Dunlap, Mike Rexroad, Brian F. Co...
We study the problem of answering ambiguous web queries in a setting where there exists a taxonomy of information, and that both queries and documents may belong to more than one ...
Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Alan Halverso...
Efficient querying XML documents is an increasingly important issue considering the fact that XML becomes the de facto standard for data representation and exchange over the Web,...