December 2001 | Vol. 24 No. 4 | IEEE Computer Society |
Letters |
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief | David Lomet | 1 |
New TCDE Chair for 2002-2003 | Paul Larson, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Betty Salzberg | 2 |
Letter from the Special Issue Editor | Luis Gravano | 2 |
Special Issue on Text and Databases |
DB2 Optimization in Support of Full Text Search | Albert Maier, David Simmen | 3 |
Microsoft SQL Server Full-Text Search | James Hamilton, Tapas Nayak | 7 |
Basics of Oracle Text Retrieval | Paul Dixon | 11 |
Structured and Unstructured Search in Enterprises | Prabhakar Raghavan | 15 |
Indexing Methods for Approximate String Matching |   |
Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Erkki Sutinen, Jorma Tarhio | 19 |
Using q-grams in a DBMS for Approximate String Processing | Luis Gravano, |   |
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, H. V. Jagadish, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukrishnan, Lauri Pietarinen, Divesh Srivastava | 28 |
Modern Information Retrieval: A Brief Overview | Amit Singhal | 35 |
Integrating Diverse Information Management Systems: A Brief Survey |   |
Sriram Raghavan, Hector Garcia-Molina | 44 |
Announcements and Notices |
VLDB Conference | backcover |