Entities on social systems, such as users on Twitter, and images on Flickr, are at the core of many interesting applications: they can be ranked in search results, recommended to ...
Abstract. For many applications such as machine translation and bilingual information retrieval, the bilingual corpora play an important role in training the system. Because they a...
Abstract Since the concept of private information retrieval (PIR) was first formalized by Chor et. al, various constructions have been proposed with a common goal of reducing commu...
Xuhua Ding, Yanjiang Yang, Robert H. Deng, Shuhong...
Is it possible to use sense inventories to improve Web search results diversity for one word queries? To answer this question, we focus on two broad-coverage lexical resources of ...
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...