We present and evaluate various content-based recommendation models that make use of user and item profiles defined in terms of weighted lists of social tags. The studied approach...
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...
We present a novel passage-based approach to re-ranking documents in an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. While most work on passage-based document...
Intelligent directory assistance is the ability to retrieve relevant subscriber records in the presence of mismatches between the query and the subscriber record. The challenges a...
Blog post opinion retrieval aims at finding blog posts that are relevant and opinionated about a user’s query. In this paper we propose a simple probabilistic model for assigni...