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ICALP
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Single-Database Private Information Retrieval with Constant Communication Rate
We present a single-database private information retrieval (PIR) scheme with communication complexity O(k+d), where k ≥ log n is a security parameter that depends on the database...
Craig Gentry, Zulfikar Ramzan
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Translation enhancement: a new relevance feedback method for cross-language information retrieval
As an effective technique for improving retrieval effectiveness, relevance feedback (RF) has been widely studied in both monolingual and cross-language information retrieval (CLIR...
Daqing He, Dan Wu
TAL
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Concept Based Representations for Ranking in Geographic Information Retrieval
Abstract. Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographical locations. Traditional IR en...
Maya Carrillo, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Aureli...
ICALP
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Improved Lower Bounds for Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval
We prove new lower bounds for locally decodable codes and private information retrieval. We show that a 2-query LDC encoding nbit strings over an ℓ-bit alphabet, where the decode...
Stephanie Wehner, Ronald de Wolf