Web search components such as ranking and query suggestions analyze the user data provided in query and click logs. While this data is easy to collect and provides information abo...
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan ...
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Media studies concerns the study of production, content, and/or reception of various types of media. Today’s continuous production and storage of media is changing the way media...
Marc Bron, Jasmijn van Gorp, Frank Nack, Maarten d...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
We propose a new notion of secure multiparty computation aided by a computationally-powerful but untrusted “cloud” server. In this notion that we call on-the-fly multiparty c...