A Declarative DB-Powered Approach to IR

We present a prototype system using array comprehensions to bridge the gap between databases and information retrieval. It allows researchers to express their retrieval models in the General Matrix Framework for Information Retrieval [1], and have these executed on relational database systems with negligible effort.

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