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SIGIR
2005
ACM
16 years 5 days ago
Assessing the term independence assumption in blind relevance feedback
When applying blind relevance feedback for ad hoc document retrieval, is it possible to identify, a priori, the set of query terms that will most improve retrieval performance? Ca...
Jimmy J. Lin, G. Craig Murray
CAISE
2005
Springer
16 years 4 days ago
Heuristic Horizontal XML Fragmentation
A challenging question is how XML can be used to support distributed databases. This leads to the problem of how to obtain a suitable, cost-efficient distribution design for XML do...
Hui Ma, Klaus-Dieter Schewe
VLDB
2005
ACM
82views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
16 years 2 days ago
Stack-based Algorithms for Pattern Matching on DAGs
Existing work for query processing over graph data models often relies on pre-computing the transitive closure or path indexes. In this paper, we propose a family of stack-based a...
Li Chen, Amarnath Gupta, M. Erdem Kurul
ICDT
2003
ACM
126views Database» more  ICDT 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
Typechecking Top-Down Uniform Unranked Tree Transducers
We investigate the typechecking problem for XML queries: statically verifying that every answer to a query conforms to a given output schema, for inputs satisfying a given input sc...
Wim Martens, Frank Neven
FOCS
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Testing Juntas
We consider the problem of testing functions for the property of being a k-junta (i.e., of depending on at most k variables). Fischer, Kindler, Ron, Safra, and Samorodnitsky (J. Co...
Eldar Fischer, Guy Kindler, Dana Ron, Shmuel Safra...