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The most serious challenges Personal Information Management Systems face today are the results of having to deal with a large number of heterogeneous types of data from diverse data sources, but having no means of managing and searching them in a convenient, unified fashion. We argue that simplicity and flexibility are essential attributes for the next-generation search tools to respond to these challenges. This paper lays out specific issues to realizing such a tool in the context of desktop search and ties them to existing search techniques employed by Database Management Systems and Information Retrieval - the two leading disciplines in search technology. We propose a novel technique for desktop search and show how our combined database and information retrieval approach to searching heterogeneous desktop data is going to benefit a large community of users.
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Pradhan, S. (2007). Towards a Novel Desktop Search Technique. In: Wagner, R., Revell, N., Pernul, G. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4653. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74469-6_20
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