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INEX
2005
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
TIJAH Scratches INEX 2005: Vague Element Selection, Image Search, Overlap, and Relevance Feedback
Retrieving information from heterogeneous data sources in a flexible manner and within a single (database) framework is still a challenge. In this paper we present several extensi...
Vojkan Mihajlovic, Georgina Ramírez, Thijs ...
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A survey of pre-retrieval query performance predictors
The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong
CC
2006
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
A tight lower bound for restricted pir protocols
We show that any 1-round 2-server Private Information Retrieval Protocol where the answers are 1-bit long must ask questions that are at least n - 2 bits long, which is nearly equa...
Richard Beigel, Lance Fortnow, William I. Gasarch
ANLP
2000
127views more  ANLP 2000»
15 years 8 months ago
Answer Extraction
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
Steven P. Abney, Michael Collins, Amit Singhal
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NDSS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Two-Party Computation Model for Privacy-Preserving Queries over Distributed Databases
Many existing privacy-preserving techniques for querying distributed databases of sensitive information do not scale for large databases due to the use of heavyweight cryptographi...
Sherman S. M. Chow, Jie-Han Lee, Lakshminarayanan ...