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ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
A Comparative Study of Utilizing Topic Models for Information Retrieval
We explore the utility of different types of topic models for retrieval purposes. Based on prior work, we describe several ways that topic models can be integrated into the retrie...
Xing Yi, James Allan
ICALP
2005
Springer
16 years 8 days ago
Single-Database Private Information Retrieval with Constant Communication Rate
We present a single-database private information retrieval (PIR) scheme with communication complexity O(k+d), where k ≥ log n is a security parameter that depends on the database...
Craig Gentry, Zulfikar Ramzan
ICALP
2005
Springer
16 years 8 days ago
Improved Lower Bounds for Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval
We prove new lower bounds for locally decodable codes and private information retrieval. We show that a 2-query LDC encoding nbit strings over an ℓ-bit alphabet, where the decode...
Stephanie Wehner, Ronald de Wolf
CRYPTO
1999
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
An Information Theoretic Analysis of Rooted-Tree Based Secure Multicast Key Distribution Schemes
Several variations of rooted tree based solutions have been recently proposed for member revocation in multicast communications [18, 19, 20, 21]. In this paper, we show that by ass...
Radha Poovendran, John S. Baras
ACL
2004
15 years 8 months ago
The Sentimental Factor: Improving Review Classification Via Human-Provided Information
Sentiment classification is the task of labeling a review document according to the polarity of its prevailing opinion (favorable or unfavorable). In approaching this problem, a m...
Philip Beineke, Trevor Hastie, Shivakumar Vaithyan...