GIOSS: Text-source discovery over the Internet

ACM Transactions on Database Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 229-264

  Gravano, Luis ^a   García Molina, Héctor ^b   Tomasic, Anthony ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Distributed information retrieval; H.3 Information Systems ; Information Storage and Retrieval; Internet search and retrieval; Measurement; Performance; Text databases

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TEXT DATABASES;

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; GLOSSARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SERVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES; VECTORS;

INTERNET;

EID: 0001511080     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/320248.320252     Document Type: Article

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