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Introduction to the special issue on database and information retrieval integration
2007
The VLDB journal
The goal of having a common platform for dealing with both structured and unstructured data is a longstanding one, going back to the 1960s. A number of approaches have been suggested, both from the database and information retrieval (IR) perspective, but the motivation for finding a solution or solutions that work has grown tremendously since the advent of very large-scale Web databases. Areas that were once the exclusive concerns of IR such as statistical inference and ranking, have now become
doi:10.1007/s00778-007-0074-x
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