We introduce the Ranked Feature Fusion framework for information retrieval system design. Typical information retrieval formalisms such as the vector space model, the bestmatch mo...
Most geographic information retrieval systems depend on the detection and disambiguation of place names in documents, assuming that the documents with a specific geographic scope ...
In history and the other humanities, events and narrative sequences of events are often of primary interest. Yet while named events sometimes appear as subject headings, systems f...
While strings and syntax trees are used by the Natural Language Processing community to represent the structure of spoken languages, these encodings are difficult to adapt to a si...
We introduce a primitive called Hierarchical Identity-Coupling Broadcast Encryption (HICBE) that can be used for constructing efficient collusion-resistant public-key broadcast enc...