We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Information needs are rarely satisfied directly on search engine result pages. Searchers usually need to click through to search results (landing pages) and follow search trails b...
Crowdsourcing platforms offer unprecedented opportunities for creating evaluation benchmarks, but suffer from varied output quality from crowd workers who possess different levels...
XML documents represent a middle range between unstructured data such as textual documents and fully structured data encoded in databases. Typically, information retrieval techniq...
Yosi Mass, Dafna Sheinwald, Benjamin Sznajder, Siv...
We introduce a new practical mechanism for remote data storage with efficient access pattern privacy and correctness. A storage client can deploy this mechanism to issue encrypted...