Embellishing Text Search Queries To Protect User Privacy

Summary: Embellish queries with decoy terms that mimic genuine term specificity to hide user intent in similarity-based text retrieval. A retrieval scheme computes encrypted relevance scores from the genuine terms only, while decoys remain indistinguishable, preserving precision/recall; empirical evaluation confirms effectiveness. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10109
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.7463969e-05
Overall Rank: 7,150 | 50.31%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,250	Modular Order-Preserving Encryption, Revisited	2015	SIGMOD	7.6681852e-05
8,958	Privacy Preservation by Disassociation	2012	VLDB	5.4076395e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,976	Authenticating the Query Results of Text Search Engines	2008	VLDB	7.0529859e-05

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