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WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Ranking refinement and its application to information retrieval
We consider the problem of ranking refinement, i.e., to improve the accuracy of an existing ranking function with a small set of labeled instances. We are, particularly, intereste...
Rong Jin, Hamed Valizadegan, Hang Li
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STOC
2007
ACM
102views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
16 years 4 months ago
Zero-knowledge from secure multiparty computation
A zero-knowledge proof allows a prover to convince a verifier of an assertion without revealing any further information beyond the fact that the assertion is true. Secure multipar...
Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, A...
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Clickthrough-based translation models for web search: from word models to phrase models
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Jian-Yun Nie
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Learning effective ranking functions for newsgroup search
Web communities are web virtual broadcasting spaces where people can freely discuss anything. While such communities function as discussion boards, they have even greater value as...
Wensi Xi, Jesper Lind, Eric Brill
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AMTA
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A Comparative Study of Query and Document Translation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Cross-language retrieval systems use queries in one natural language to guide retrieval of documents that might be written in another. Acquisition and representation of translation...
Douglas W. Oard