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CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A survey of pre-retrieval query performance predictors
The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong
CC
2006
Springer
125views System Software» more  CC 2006»
15 years 7 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
ANLP
2000
127views more  ANLP 2000»
15 years 8 months ago
Answer Extraction
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
Steven P. Abney, Michael Collins, Amit Singhal
ECIR
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Efficient Multimedia Time Series Data Retrieval Under Uniform Scaling and Normalisation
As the world has shifted towards manipulation of information and its technology, we have been increasingly overwhelmed by the amount of available multimedia data while having highe...
Waiyawuth Euachongprasit, Chotirat Ann Ratanamahat...
IUI
2004
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
Contextual contact retrieval
People routinely rely on physical and electronic systems to remind themselves of details regarding personal and organizational contacts. These systems include rolodexes, directori...
Jonathan Trevor, David M. Hilbert, Daniel Billsus,...