When close enough is good enough: Approximate positional indexes for efficient ranked retrieval

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1993-1996

  Elsayed, Tamer ^a   Lin, Jimmy ^b   Metzler, Donald ^c  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

efficiency; learning to rank; term proximity

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED; INVERTED INDICES; LEARNING TO RANK; LINEAR RANKING; QUERY EVALUATION; QUERY EXECUTION; RANKED RETRIEVAL; TERM PROXIMITY;

EFFICIENCY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 83055165975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063576.2063873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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