Many existing privacy-preserving techniques for querying distributed databases of sensitive information do not scale for large databases due to the use of heavyweight cryptographi...
Sherman S. M. Chow, Jie-Han Lee, Lakshminarayanan ...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
Designing good user interfaces to information retrieval systems is a complex activity. The design space is large and evaluation methodologies that go beyond the classical precisio...
The rapidity with which digital information, particularly video is being generated, has necessitated the development of tools for efficient search of these digital media. Content...
Shih-Fu Chang, William Chen, Horace J. Meng, Hari ...
In this paper we present some aspects of an intelligent interface for a WWWeb legal information retrieval system. Our system is able to keep the context of the user interaction in...