Type less, find more: Fast autocompletion search with a succinct index

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 364-371

  Bast, Holger ^a   Weber, Ingmar ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocompletion; Empirical entropy; Index data structure

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; XML; USER INTERFACES;

AUTOCOMPLETION; EMPIRICAL ENTROPY; INDEX DATA STRUCTURE; PROXIMITY SEARCH; AUTOCOMPLETION FEATURES; INDEX DATA STRUCTURES; SEMANTIC TAGS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33750363733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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