Much attention has been paid to the relative effectiveness of interactive query expansion versus automatic query expansion. Although interactive query expansion has the potential ...
Abstract. We present the first private information retrieval (PIR) scheme which is both, deterministically correct and has poly-logarithmic communication complexity. Our PIR proto...
A recommender system has to collect users' preference data. To collect such data, rating or scoring methods that use rating scales, such as good-fair-poor or a five-point-sca...
One of the main strengths of the web is that it allows any party of its global community to share information with any other party. This goal has been achieved by making use of a u...
In cross-language information retrieval it is often important to align words that are similar in meaning in two corpora written in different languages. Previous research shows tha...