Frank Tompa
Professor
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Dr. Frank Tompa is a Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Research Interest
Professor Tompa's teaching and research interests are in the fields of data structures and databases, and he has been an active member of the Database Research Group and the Information Retrieval Group since their founding. His current interests are in text-dominated database applications, where the content is primarily long, semi-structured strings, which are not as well supported by traditional database systems as are numbers. The challenge is to discover how the complexity of text, with its intricate structure and diversity of expression, can be efficiently managed.
Publications
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A. R. Kane and F. W. Tompa. Skewed Partial Bitvectors for List Intersection. Proc. of ACM SIGIR: 263-272, 2014.
