Adaptive Comparison-Based Algorithms for Evaluating Set Queries
In this thesis we study a problem that arises in answering boolean queries submitted to a search engine. Usually a search engine stores the set of IDs of documents containing each word in a pre-computed sorted order and to evaluate a query like "computer AND science" the search engine ha...
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University of Waterloo
2006
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1147 |