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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Evaluating high accuracy retrieval techniques
Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...
Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft
COCO
2005
Springer
96views Algorithms» more  COCO 2005»
14 years 28 days ago
A Geometric Approach to Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval
A t-private private information retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user to retrieve the ith bit of an n-bit string x replicated among k servers, while any coalition of up to t server...
David P. Woodruff, Sergey Yekhanin
MM
2009
ACM
174views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Comparing fact finding tasks and user survey for evaluating a video browsing tool
There are still no established methods for the evaluation of browsing and exploratory search tools. In the (multimedia) information retrieval community evaluations following the C...
Werner Bailer, Herwig Rehatschek
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
An intelligent discussion-bot for answering student queries in threaded discussions
This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Where in the Wikipedia Is That Answer? The XLDB at the GikiCLEF 2009 Task
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Ló...