Efficient fuzzy full-text type-ahead search

VLDB Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 617-640

  Li, Guoliang ^a   Ji, Shengyue ^b   Li, Chen ^b   Feng, Jianhua ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto complete; Full text search; Fuzzy search; Type ahead search

Indexed keywords

AUTO COMPLETE; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; FULL-TEXT SEARCH; FUZZY SEARCH; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; ON THE FLIES; RECENT TRENDS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; TYPE-AHEAD SEARCH; USER TYPE;

ALGORITHMS; QUERY PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 79960467518     PISSN: 10668888     EISSN: 0949877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00778-011-0218-x     Document Type: Article

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