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SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Reusable test collections through experimental design
Portable, reusable test collections are a vital part of research and development in information retrieval. Reusability is difficult to assess, however. The standard approach— si...
Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu...
PKC
2010
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Multi-query Computationally-Private Information Retrieval with Constant Communication Rate
A fundamental privacy problem in the client-server setting is the retrieval of a record from a database maintained by a server so that the computationally bounded server remains ob...
Jens Groth, Aggelos Kiayias, Helger Lipmaa
SIGIR
1992
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Bead: Explorations in Information Visualization
ct We describe work on the visualization of bibliographic data and, to aid in this task, the application of numerical techniques for multidimensional scaling. Many areas of scienti...
Matthew Chalmers, Paul Chitson
COOPIS
1994
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Query-Free Information Retrieval
We introduce query-free information retrieval, a paradigm in which queries are constructed autonomously and information relevant to a user is offered without explicit request. Que...
Peter E. Hart, Jamey Graham
SCIE
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Semantic Matching: Formal Ontological Distinctions for Information Organization, Extraction, and Integration
Abstract. The task of information extraction can be seen as a problem of semantic matching between a user-defined template and a piece of information written in natural language. T...
Nicola Guarino
SIGIR
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Phonetic String Matching: Lessons from Information Retrieval
Phonetic matching is used in applications such as name retrieval, where the spelling of a name is used to identify other strings that are likely to be of similar pronunciation. In...
Justin Zobel, Philip W. Dart
DEXA
1997
Springer
137views Database» more  DEXA 1997»
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A Retrieval Mechanism for Semi-Structured Photographic Collections
Abstract. In this paper, a new approach for retrieval from semistructured photographic collections is described. We have developed a retrieval model based on the Dempster-Shafer th...
Joemon M. Jose, David J. Harper
HICSS
1996
IEEE
136views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1996»
14 years 3 months ago
Applications of Multilingual Text Retrieval
The recent enormous increase in the use of networked information access and on-line databases has led to more databases being available in languages other than English. The Center...
W. Bruce Croft, John Broglio, Hideo Fujii
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
SAIRE - A Scalable Agent-Based Information Retrieval Engine
The information access and retrieval capabilities provided by several conventional search engines, while improving upon traditional techniques, are lacking in supporting conceptua...
Jidé B. Odubiyi, David J. Kocur, Stuart M. ...
KI
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Computing Probabilistic Least Common Subsumers in Description Logics
Computing least common subsumers in description logics is an important reasoning service useful for a number of applications. As shown in the literature, it can, for instance, be u...
Thomas Mantay, Ralf Möller, Alissa Kaplunova