Title
Exploiting available memory and disk for scalable instant overview search
Abstract
Search-As-You-Type (or Instant Search) is a recently introduced functionality which shows predictive results while the user types a query letter by letter. In this paper we generalize and propose an extension of this technique which apart from showing on-the-fly the first page of results, it shows various other kinds of information, e.g. the outcome of results clustering techniques, or metadata-based groupings of the results. Although this functionality is more informative than the classic search-as-you type, since it combines Autocompletion, Search-As-You-Type, and Results Clustering, the provision of real-time interaction is more challenging. To tackle this issue we propose an approach based on pre-computed information and we comparatively evaluate various index structures for making real-time interaction feasible, even if the size of the available memory space is limited. This comparison reveals the memory/ performance trade-off and allows deciding which index structure to use according to the available main memory and desired performance. Furthermore we show that an incremental algorithm can be used to keep the index structure fresh.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-24434-6_8
WISE
Keywords
Field
DocType
classic search-as-you type,available memory space,pre-computed information,performance trade-off,scalable instant overview search,various index structure,query letter,index structure,real-time interaction,available main memory,instant search
Data mining,Metadata,Instant,Computer science,Cluster analysis,Database,Scalability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6997
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
18
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pavlos Fafalios115419.76
Yannis Tzitzikas277382.04