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Querying the Digital Archive of Science: Distant Reading, Semantic Modelling and Representation of Knowledge

Alina Volynskaya

The archive of science is a place where scientific practices are sedimented in the form of drafts, protocols of rejected hypotheses and failed experiments, obsolete instruments, outdated visualizations and other residues. Today, just as science goes more a ...

EPFL2024

Understanding Digital Libraries as Open Spaces

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Building on an ongoing case study of how readers navigate the corpus of BnF Gallica and on a nascent project at OpenEdition, I will venture an understanding of digital libraries as open spaces at the crossroads of political spaces—with their governance res ...

2023

New Multi-Keyword Ciphertext Search Method for Sensor Network Cloud Platforms

Jiyong Zhang, Yue Wang, Hongyu Yang

This paper proposed a multi-keyword ciphertext search, based on an improved-quality hierarchical clustering (MCS-IQHC) method. MCS-IQHC is a novel technique, which is tailored to work with encrypted data. It has improved search accuracy and can self-adapt ...

MDPI2018

Unleashing the power of semantic text analysis: a complex systems approach

Andrea Martini

In the present information era, a huge amount of machine-readable data is available regarding scientific publications. Such unprecedented wealth of data offers the opportunity to investigate science itself as a complex interacting system by means of quanti ...

EPFL2018

PerfIso: Performance Isolation for Commercial Latency-Sensitive Services

Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Calin Iorgulescu

Large commercial latency-sensitive services, such as web search, run on dedicated clusters provisioned for peak load to ensure responsiveness and tolerate data center outages. As a result, the average load is far lower than the peak load used for provision ...

USENIX ASSOC2018

Explicit Suggestion of Query Terms for News Search using Topic Models and Word Embeddings

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Parvaz Mahdabi

This report presents a study on assisting users in building queries to perform real-time searches in a news and social media monitoring system. The system accepts complex queries, and we assist the user by suggesting related keywords or entities. We do thi ...

Idiap2016

Result Selection and Summarization for Web Table Search

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên

The amount of information available on the Web has been growing dramatically, raising the importance of techniques for searching the Web. Recently, Web Tables emerged as a model, which enables users to search for information in a structured way. However, e ...

2015

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Web Search is increasingly entity centric; as a large fraction of common queries target specific entities, search results get progressively augmented with semi-structured and multimedia information about those entities. However, search over personal web br ...

Elsevier2014

This paper addresses the problem of building concise, diverse and relevant lists of documents, which can be recommended to the participants of a conversation to fulfill their information needs without distracting them. These lists are retrieved periodicall ...

2014

A Speech-based Just-in-Time Retrieval System using Semantic Search

Philip Neil Garner, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Majid Yazdani

The Automatic Content Linking Device is a just-in-time document retrieval system which monitors an ongoing conversation or a monologue and enriches it with potentially related documents, including multimedia ones, from local repositories or from the Intern ...

2011