Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
We consider several private database query problems. The starting point of this work is the element rank problem: the server holds a database of n integers, and the user an integer...
Enterprises may have multiple database systems spread across the organization for redundancy or for serving different applications. In such systems, query workloads can be distrib...
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
Conventional approaches to video annotation predominantly focus on supervised identification of a limited set of concepts, while unsupervised annotation with infinite vocabulary...
Emily Moxley, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Wei-Ying Ma...