Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Sensors are often employed to monitor continuously changing entities like locations of moving objects and temperature. The sensor readings are reported to a database system, and a...
Reynold Cheng, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabha...
Querying document-centric XML collections with structure conditions improves retrieval precisions. The structures of such XML collections, however, are often too complex for users...
We present the application of customized code generation to database query evaluation. The idea is to use a collection of highly efficient code templates and dynamically instantiat...
In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the...