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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
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VLDB
1998
ACM
144views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
15 years 6 months ago
Proximity Search in Databases
An information retrieval IR engine can rank documents based on textual proximityof keywords within each document. In this paper we apply this notion to search across an entire dat...
Roy Goldman, Narayanan Shivakumar, Suresh Venkatas...
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COCO
1997
Springer
127views Algorithms» more  COCO 1997»
15 years 6 months ago
A Nonadaptive NC Checker for Permutation Group Intersection
In this paper we design a nonadaptive NC checker for permutation group intersection, sharpening a result from Blum and Kannan 3]. This is a consequence of two results. First we sh...
Vikraman Arvind, Jacobo Torán
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DBSEC
2007
104views Database» more  DBSEC 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
New Paradigm of Inference Control with Trusted Computing
Abstract. The database server is a crucial bottleneck in traditional inference control architecture, as it enforces highly computation-intensive auditing for all users who query th...
Yanjiang Yang, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng