Enhancing Efficiency of Search Systems
• Caching
Results: in answer to a user query
Posting Lists : e.g. for the query “new york” cache the posting lists for term new and for term york
Partial queries :cache subqueries, e.g. for “new york times” cache only “new york” Traditional
• Index Partitioning and Querying in Distributed IR Systems
Balance the load?
Better exploit resources?
In light of...The Power Law!!!!
Enhancing Effectiveness of Search Systems
• Query intention
• Query recommendations
• Spelling Correction
• User Driven Web Design
• Extracting Semantics from Queries