Publication details
Similarity Join in Metric Spaces
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| Year of publication | 2003 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval Research |
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| Field | Computer hardware and software |
| Keywords | similarity join; index structures; performance; text management |
| Description | Similarity join in distance spaces constrained by the metric postulates is the necessary complement of more famous similarity range and the nearest neighbors search primitives. However, the quadratic computational complexity of similarity joins prevents from applications on large data collections. We first study the underlying principles of such joins and suggest three categories of implementation strategies based on filtering, partitioning, or similarity range searching. Then we study an application of the D-index to implement the most promising alternative of range searching. Though also this approach is not able to eliminate the intrinsic quadratic complexity of similarity joins, significant performance improvements are confirmed by experiments. |
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