Efficient Query Evaluation Through Access-Reordering


Steve Garcia
Andrew Turpin
School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.


Status

Proc. 3rd Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2006) Singapore, to appear October 2006.

Abstract

Reorganising the index of a search engine based on access frequencies can significantly reduce query evaluation time while maintaining search effectiveness. In this paper we extend access-ordering and introduce a variant index organisation technique that we label access-reordering. We show that by access-reordering an inverted index, query evaluation time can be reduced by as much as 62\% over the standard approach, while yielding highly similar effectiveness results to those obtained when using a conventional index.