We consider the problem of wide-area large-scale text search over a peer-to-peer infrastructure. A wide-area search infrastructure with billions of documents and millions of searc...
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Peter J...
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...
— A system is described that automatically categorizes and classifies infectious disease incidence reports by type and geographic location, to aid analysis by domain experts. It...
Michael D. Lieberman, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hana...