This work details the experiments carried out using the Indri search engine for the ad hoc retrieval task in the TREC 2007 Million Query Track. We investigate using proximity feat...
A new method is introduced that makes use of sparse image representations to search for approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) under the normalized inner-product distance. The approa...
Personalized Web search takes advantage of information about an individual to identify the most relevant results for that person. A challenge for personalization lies in collectin...
We introduce an auditing framework for determining whether a database system is adhering to its data disclosure policies. Users formulate audit expressions to specify the (sensiti...
Rakesh Agrawal, Roberto J. Bayardo Jr., Christos F...
With the explosion in the amount of semi-structured data users access and store, there is a need for complex search tools to retrieve often very heterogeneous data in a simple and ...