New types of document collections are being developed by various web services. The service providers keep track of non-textual features such as click counts. In this paper, we pre...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee, Soyeon P...
Short Messaging Service (SMS) is popularly used to provide information access to people on the move. This has resulted in the growth of SMS based Question Answering (QA) services....
Govind Kothari, Sumit Negi, Tanveer A. Faruquie, V...
Various cognitive and computational models have addressed the use of previous experience to understand a new domain. In particular, research in case-based reasoning has explored t...
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
A t-private private information retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user to retrieve the ith bit of an n-bit string x replicated among k servers, while any coalition of up to t server...