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ICALP
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Single-Database Private Information Retrieval with Constant Communication Rate
We present a single-database private information retrieval (PIR) scheme with communication complexity O(k+d), where k ≥ log n is a security parameter that depends on the database...
Craig Gentry, Zulfikar Ramzan
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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
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CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Translation enhancement: a new relevance feedback method for cross-language information retrieval
As an effective technique for improving retrieval effectiveness, relevance feedback (RF) has been widely studied in both monolingual and cross-language information retrieval (CLIR...
Daqing He, Dan Wu
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TAL
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Concept Based Representations for Ranking in Geographic Information Retrieval
Abstract. Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographical locations. Traditional IR en...
Maya Carrillo, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Aureli...
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ICALP
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Improved Lower Bounds for Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval
We prove new lower bounds for locally decodable codes and private information retrieval. We show that a 2-query LDC encoding nbit strings over an ℓ-bit alphabet, where the decode...
Stephanie Wehner, Ronald de Wolf