In the area of Text Retrieval, processing a query in the vector model has been verified to be qualitatively more effective than searching in the boolean model. However, in case o...
Selectivity estimation of queries not only provides useful information to the query processing optimization but also may give users a preview of processing results. In this paper,...
Abstract: Query languages for XML such as XPath or XQuery support Boolean retrieval where a query result is a (possibly restructured) subset of XML elements or entire documents tha...
We present a system for searching and classifying U.S. patent documents, based on Inquery. Patents are distributed through hundreds of collections, divided up by general area. The...
This paper provides an overview of experiments carried out at the TREC 2004 Terabyte Track using the Indri search engine. Indri is an efficient, effective distributed search engin...
Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, Howard R. Turtle,...