Information Dissemination applications are gaining increasing popularity due to dramatic improvements in communications bandwidth and ubiquity. The sheer volume of data available ...
Abstract. Private keyword search is a technique that allows for searching and retrieving documents matching certain keywords without revealing the search criteria. We improve the s...
We evaluate three different relevance feedback (RF) algorithms, Rocchio, Robertson/Sparck-Jones (RSJ) and Bayesian, in the context of Web search. We use a target-testing experimen...
Vishwa Vinay, Kenneth R. Wood, Natasa Milic-Frayli...
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
A large amount of research, technical and professional documents are available today in digital formats. Digital libraries are created to facilitate search and retrieval of inform...