Searchers can have problems devising queries that accurately express their, often dynamic, information needs. In this paper we describe an adaptive approach that uses unobtrusive ...
Publishing a database instance containing individual information poses two kinds of privacy risk: presence leakage, by which the attackers can explicitly identify individuals in (...
The information state of an agent is changed when a text (in natural language) is processed. The meaning of a text can be taken to be this information state change potential. The ...
Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a well-known unsupervised approach for dimensionality reduction in information retrieval. However if the output information (i.e. category labels...
Text similarity spans a spectrum, with broad topical similarity near one extreme and document identity at the other. Intermediate levels of similarity – resulting from summariza...
Donald Metzler, Yaniv Bernstein, W. Bruce Croft, A...