An algorithm for suffix stripping
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Crowds: anonymity for Web transactions
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms
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Searching the Web: the public and their queries
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Mining the Web for Synonyms: PMI-IR versus LSA on TOEFL
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An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity
ICML '98 Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
k-anonymity: a model for protecting privacy
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Verbs semantics and lexical selection
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
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Swoogle: a search and metadata engine for the semantic web
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WI '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Automatic identification of user interest for personalized search
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Ontology Learning and Population from Text: Algorithms, Evaluation and Applications
Ontology Learning and Population from Text: Algorithms, Evaluation and Applications
OntoCAPE-A large-scale ontology for chemical process engineering
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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Computational Linguistics
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ACM SIGIR Forum
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A New Model of Information Content for Semantic Similarity in WordNet
FGCNS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Second International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking Symposia - Volume 03
Preserving user's privacy in web search engines
Computer Communications
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IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
User-private information retrieval based on a peer-to-peer community
Data & Knowledge Engineering
A semantic similarity metric combining features and intrinsic information content
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Using social networks to distort users' profiles generated by web search engines
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Privacy-preserving query log mining for business confidentiality protection
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
On the privacy of web search based on query obfuscation: a case study of TrackMeNot
PETS'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Privacy enhancing technologies
Ontology-driven web-based semantic similarity
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Ontology-based information content computation
Knowledge-Based Systems
Content annotation for the semantic web: an automatic web-based approach
Knowledge and Information Systems
User k-anonymity for privacy preserving data mining of query logs
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Towards the estimation of feature-based semantic similarity using multiple ontologies
Knowledge-Based Systems
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Web search engines (WSEs) are basic tools for finding and accessing data in the Internet. However, they also put the privacy of their users at risk. This happens because users frequently reveal private information in their queries. WSEs gather this personal data and build user profiles which are used to provide personalized search (PS). PS improves the users' search results and, hence, it is a key element for the successfulness of WSEs: the entity that offers the best searching experience should attract more users. Nevertheless, profiles can also be used in an improper way by WSEs or they can be stolen by attackers. This situation requires privacy-preserving schemes able to handle from simple queries (one single term) to complex queries (several words with or without relation). Generally, these systems generate and submit inaccurate queries in order to provide privacy, but these queries must be carefully built in order to keep the usefulness of the user profiles. Current literature does not address the generation of privacy-preserving and useful complex queries. Therefore, this paper presents a new scheme that generates distorted user queries from a semantic point of view in order to preserve the usefulness of user profiles. Besides, linguistic analysis techniques are used to properly interpret complex queries performed by users and generate new semantically-related ones accordingly. The performance of the new scheme is evaluated in terms of semantic preservation of new queries, privacy level and runtime. A set of query logs taken from real users and compiled by AOL is used as test data.