In a new model for answer retrieval, document collections are distilled offline into large repositories of facts. Each fact constitutes a potential direct answer to questions seek...
It has been known that using different representations of either queries or documents, or different retrieval techniques retrieves different sets of documents. Recent work suggest...
Most cryptographic algorithms provide a means for secret and authentic communication. However, under many circumstances, the ability to repudiate messages or deny a conversation i...
Ian Goldberg, Berkant Ustaoglu, Matthew Van Gundy,...
In the area of privacy-preserving data mining, a differentially private mechanism intuitively encourages people to share their data truthfully because they are at little risk of ...
To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) 29]...
Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Kri...