Bridging between information retrieval and databases

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The research domains of information retrieval and databases have historically taken different approaches to information management. Recently, however, there has been significant cross-fertilization between the two fields, leading to shared research challenges. In February 2013, a winter school was held in Bressanone, Italy, as part of the EU-funded PROMISE project (Participative Research Laboratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation). PROMISE aimed to enhance the experimental evaluation of complex multimedia and multilingual information systems to assist individuals, businesses, and communities in designing, developing, and improving these systems. The project sought to create a unified environment for collecting data, knowledge, tools, and methodologies to support the user community in experimental evaluation. This book is the result of the PROMISE Winter School 2013, featuring 9 invited lectures from the fields of information retrieval and databases, along with short papers from the best student poster awards. It covers a wide range of topics, including databases, information retrieval, experimental evaluation, metrics and statistics, semantic search, keyword search in databases, semi-structured search, and the evaluation of both information retrieval and databases, as well as crowdsourcing and social media.