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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Predicting accuracy of extracting information from unstructured text collections
Exploiting lexical and semantic relationships in large unstructured text collections can significantly enhance managing, integrating, and querying information locked in unstructur...
Eugene Agichtein, Silviu Cucerzan
FOIKS
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Theoretical Foundations for Enabling a Web of Knowledge
The current web is a web of linked pages. Frustrated users search for facts by guessing which keywords or keyword phrases might lead them to pages where they can find facts. Can w...
David W. Embley, Andrew Zitzelberger
CC
2006
Springer
125views System Software» more  CC 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
A tight lower bound for restricted pir protocols
We show that any 1-round 2-server Private Information Retrieval Protocol where the answers are 1-bit long must ask questions that are at least n - 2 bits long, which is nearly equa...
Richard Beigel, Lance Fortnow, William I. Gasarch
COMAD
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Information Integration Across Heterogeneous Sources: Where Do We Stand and How to Proceed?
Today, information integration has assumed a completely different, complex connotation than what it used to be. The advent of the Internet, the proliferation of information source...
Aditya Telang, Sharma Chakravarthy, Yan Huang
ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
142views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Effective Term Weighting for Sentence Retrieval
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Matthew Lease, Dietrich Klakow