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ESORICS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Private Information Retrieval Techniques for Enabling Location Privacy in Location-Based Services
Abstract. The ubiquity of smartphones and other location-aware handheld devices has resulted in a dramatic increase in popularity of locationbased services (LBS) tailored to user l...
Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi
TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
On Retrieving Legal Files: Shortening Documents and Weeding Out Garbage
This paper describes our participation in the TREC Legal experiments in 2007. We have applied novel normalization techniques that are designed to slightly favor longer documents i...
Scott Kulp, April Kontostathis
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Automatic term mismatch diagnosis for selective query expansion
People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Query length in interactive information retrieval
Query length in best-match information retrieval (IR) systems is well known to be positively related to effectiveness in the IR task, when measured in experimental, non-interactiv...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, G. Kim, Ja-Young ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 25 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