Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

Our world is being revolutionized by data-driven methods: access to large amounts of data
has generated new insights and opened exciting new opportunities in commerce, science …

Bitmap compression has been studied extensively in the database area and many efficient
compression schemes were proposed, eg, BBC, WAH, EWAH, and Roaring. Inverted list …

Similarity search applications with a large amount of text and image data demands an
efficient and effective solution. One useful strategy is to represent the examples in databases …

The web today is increasingly characterized by social and real-time signals, which we
believe represent two frontiers in information retrieval. In this paper, we present Early bird …

Web search engines have stored in their logs information about users since they started to
operate. This information often serves many purposes. The primary focus of this survey is on …

More and more (semi) structured information is becoming available on the web in the form of
documents embedding metadata (eg, RDF, RDFa, Microformats and others). There are …

With the proliferation of huge amounts of (heterogeneous) data on the Web, the importance
of information retrieval (IR) has grown considerably over the last few years. Big players in …

Continuous growth of the Web and user bases forces web search engine companies to
make costly investments on very large compute infrastructures. The scalability of these …