We introduce the problem of domain adaptation for content-based retrieval and propose a domain adaptation method based on relative aggregation points (RAPs). Content-based retriev...
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
This paper is concerned with rank aggregation, the task of combining the ranking results of individual rankers at meta-search. Previously, rank aggregation was performed mainly by...
Yu-Ting Liu, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Han...
There is an exploding amount of user-generated content on the Web due to the emergence of "Web 2.0" services, such as Blogger, MySpace, Flickr, and del.icio.us. The part...
Ka Cheung Sia, Junghoo Cho, Yun Chi, Belle L. Tsen...
We present PRISM, a privacy-preserving scheme for word search in cloud computing. In the face of a curious cloud provider, the main challenge is to design a scheme that achieves pr...
Erik-Oliver Blass, Roberto Di Pietro, Refik Molva,...