As the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) becomes more widespread, so does the need for effective information discovery within them. Recently proposed EMR standards are XML-b...
With respect to current methods for query evaluation over XML data streams, adoption of certain types of buffering techniques is unavoidable. Under lots of circumstances, the buff...
Chi Yang, Chengfei Liu, Jianxin Li, Jeffrey Xu Yu,...
We compare standard global IR searching with user-centric localized techniques to address the database selection problem. We conduct a series of experiments to compare the retriev...
In the domain of biomedical publications, synonyms and homonyms are omnipresent and pose a great challenge for document retrieval systems. For this year's TREC Genomics Ad ho...
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...