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...
This paper describes music information retrieval (MIR) systems featuring automatic speech recognition. Although various interfaces for MIR have been proposed, speech-recognition i...
Masataka Goto, Katunobu Itou, Koji Kitayama, Tetsu...
The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate the...
We propose and evaluate a mobile, peer-to-peer Information Retrieval system. Such a system can, for example, support medical care in a disaster by allowing access to a large colle...
Abstract The explosion of content in distributed information retrieval (IR) systems requires new mechanisms to attain timely and accurate retrieval of unstructured text. In this pa...