Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding the identity of the retrieved item. ...
Nowadays there is a big amount of biomedical literature which uses complex nouns and acronyms of biological entities thus complicating the task of retrieval specific information....
This paper describes our participation in the CLEF 2004 French monolingual task. We used our Terrier Information Retrieval platform and experimented with query expansion and query...
Christina Lioma, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh...
In this paper, we propose the ontology-based semantic web search model to enhance efficiency and accuracy of information retrieval for unstructured and semi-structured documents. N...
Indexing and retrieval techniques for homology searching of genomic databases are increasingly important as the search tools are facing great challenges of rapid growth in sequence...
Simon M. C. Yuen, Fu-Lai Chung, Robert Wing Pong L...