Abstract Since the concept of private information retrieval (PIR) was first formalized by Chor et. al, various constructions have been proposed with a common goal of reducing commu...
Xuhua Ding, Yanjiang Yang, Robert H. Deng, Shuhong...
In this paper we present our evaluations of using an Information Retrieval library in a commercial employment website with over 300,000 searches a day. Comparison of existing rela...
Ozgur Yilmazel, Burcu Yurekli, Baris Yilmazel, Ahm...
In this short note we present a recommendation system for automatic retrieval of broken Web links using an approach based on contextual information. We extract information from th...
The use of lexical semantic knowledge in information retrieval has been a field of active study for a long time. Collaborative knowledge bases like Wikipedia and Wiktionary, which...
This paper investigates the use of fuzzy logic mechanisms coming from the database community, namely graded inclusions, to model the information retrieval process. In this framewor...
Patrick Bosc, Vincent Claveau, Olivier Pivert, Lau...
We approach Information Retrieval (IR) from a User eXperience (UX) perspective. Through introducing a model for Information Retrieval eXperience (IRX), this paper operationalizes a...
Frans van der Sluis, Egon L. van den Broek, Betsy ...
Dealing with verbose (or long) queries poses a new challenge for information retrieval. Selecting a subset of the original query (a "sub-query") has been shown to be an ...
After two successful years at SIGIR in 2007 and 2008, the third workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2009) was held conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 20...
Martha Larson, Roeland Ordelman, Franciska de Jong...
Semantic wikis and other modern knowledge management systems deviate from traditional knowledge bases in that information ranges from unstructured (wiki pages) over semi-formal (ta...
Klara A. Weiand, Steffen Hausmann, Tim Furche, Fra...