Bridging Between Information Retrieval and Databases PROMISE Winter School 2013, Bressanone, Italy, February 4-8, 2013. Revised Tutorial Lectures /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ferro, Nicola (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8173
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Database Management.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

The research domains of information retrieval and databases have traditionally adopted different approaches to information management. However, in recent years, there has been an increasing cross-fertilization among the two fields and now many research challenges are transversal to them. With this i...

Table of Contents:

• Databases
• Information retrieval
• Experimental evaluation
• Metrics and statistics
• Semantic search
• Keyword search in databases
• Semi-structured search
• Evaluation both in information retrieval and databases
• Crowdsourcing and social media.