Modeling query concepts through term dependencies has been shown to have a significant positive effect on retrieval performance, especially for tasks such as web search, where rel...
We consider the problem of efficiently sampling Web search engine query results. In turn, using a small random sample instead of the full set of results leads to efficient approxi...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, David Carm...
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
We consider the problem of wide-area large-scale text search over a peer-to-peer infrastructure. A wide-area search infrastructure with billions of documents and millions of searc...
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Peter J...
Recent research identifies a growing privacy problem that exists within Online Social Networks (OSNs). Several studies have shown how easily strangers can extract personal data a...