The importance of evaluation in promoting research and development in the information retrieval and natural language processing domains has long been recognised but is this suffic...
Contextual retrieval is a critical technique for facilitating many important applications such as mobile search, personalized search, PC troubleshooting, etc. Despite of its impor...
Applying Belief Revision logic to model adaptive information retrieval is appealing since it provides a rigorous theoretical foundation to model partiality and uncertainty inheren...
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven effective for improving the average retrieval performance. Unfortunately, many experiments have shown that although pseudo-relevance feedback...
In this paper, we study the problem of single database private information retrieval, and present schemes with only logarithmic server-side communication complexity. Previously th...