Pseudo-relevance feedback is an effective technique for improving retrieval results. Traditional feedback algorithms use a whole feedback document as a unit to extract words for ...
The central goal of secure information sharing is to "share but protect" where the motivation to "protect" is to safeguard the sensitive content from unauthori...
We introduce Ad Hoc Anonymous Identification schemes, a new multi-user cryptographic primitive that allows participants from a user population to form ad hoc groups, and then prove...
Yevgeniy Dodis, Aggelos Kiayias, Antonio Nicolosi,...
This paper describes the participation of Columbus Project of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in the GeoCLEF 2006 (a cross-language geographical retrieval track which is part of Cr...
Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang 0002, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang,...
Active listening is the core of musical activity Listening does not only concern receiving musical information. On the contrary, it is "active" and based on a set of int...