There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of modern Web languages, user tagging and annotation, and emerging robust NLP tools. These meaningful, semantic, ...
A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a database user, or client, to obtain information from a data- base in a manner that prevents the database from knowing which...
Since 1995, much work has been done creating protocols for private information retrieval (PIR). Many variants of the basic PIR model have been proposed, including such modificati...
People are thirsty for medical information. Existing Web search engines often cannot handle medical search well because they do not consider its special requirements. Often a medi...
Music librarians and cataloguers have traditionally created indexes that allow users to access musical works using standard reference information, such as the name of the composer...