We define a new interactive differentially private mechanism — the median mechanism — for answering arbitrary predicate queries that arrive online. Given fixed accuracy and...
Background: The development of e-Science presents a major set of opportunities and challenges for the future progress of biological and life scientific research. Major new tools a...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is commonly used to match queries to documents in information retrieval applications. LSI has been shown to improve retrieval performance for some, ...
The aim of latent semantic indexing (LSI) is to uncover the relationships between terms, hidden concepts, and documents. LSI uses the matrix factorization technique known as singu...