The proliferation of online information resources increases the importance of effective and efficient distributed searching. Distributed searching is cast in three parts – datab...
Allison L. Powell, James C. French, James P. Calla...
In this paper, we propose a method to search the Web for sentence substitutions for a given sentence query. Our method uses only lexico-syntactic patterns dynamically generated fro...
Web search engines exploit conjunctive queries and special ranking criteria which differ from the disjunctive queries typically used for ad-hoc retrieval. We wanted to asses the e...
Many existing privacy-preserving techniques for querying distributed databases of sensitive information do not scale for large databases due to the use of heavyweight cryptographi...
Sherman S. M. Chow, Jie-Han Lee, Lakshminarayanan ...
The publication time of a page can have a big impact on its relevance to a query, especially for time-sensitive pages such as news items. For news search engines, the publication ...