Web search logs contain extremely sensitive data, as evidenced by the recent AOL incident. However, storing and analyzing search logs can be very useful for many purposes (i.e. in...
Modern search engines have to be fast to satisfy users, so there are hard back-end latency requirements. The set of features useful for search ranking functions, though, continues...
Feng Pan, Tim Converse, David Ahn, Franco Salvetti...
This work investigates personalized social search based on the user’s social relations – search results are re-ranked according to their relations with individuals in the user...
David Carmel, Naama Zwerdling, Ido Guy, Shila Ofek...
Term extraction relates to extracting the most characteristic or important terms (words or phrases) in a document. This information is commonly used for improving the accuracy of ...
In a mobile service scenario, users query a server for nearby points of interest but they may not want to disclose their locations to the service. Intuitively, location privacy may...
Man Lung Yiu, Christian S. Jensen, Xuegang Huang, ...