Abstract—Extensive work has been devoted to private information retrieval and privacy preserving data mining. To protect user privacy from search engines, however, most current a...
Shaozhi Ye, Shyhtsun Felix Wu, Raju Pandey, Hao Ch...
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
Web searches tend to be short and ambiguous. It is therefore not surprising that Web query disambiguation is an actively researched topic. To provide a personalized experience for ...
Query formulation is an essential part of successful information retrieval. The challenges in formulating effective queries are emphasized in web information search, because the w...
Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...