In e-commerce, the protection of user privacy from a server was not considered feasible until the private information retrieval (PIR) problem was stated recently. A PIR protocol a...
We consider the problem of ranking refinement, i.e., to improve the accuracy of an existing ranking function with a small set of labeled instances. We are, particularly, intereste...
This paper describes the results of some experiments using a new approach to information access that combines techniques from natural language processing and knowledge representat...
William A. Woods, Lawrence A. Bookman, Ann Houston...
In this paper, we deal with information retrieval approach based on language model paradigm, which has been intensively investigated in recent years. We propose, implement, and ev...
In the context of computer-assisted plant identification we are facing challenging information retrieval problems because of the very high within-class variability and of the lim...