For more than a decade, ontologies have been proposed as a means to enable sharing and reuse of knowledge. While originally relatively narrow information landscapes have been in mi...
In this paper, we investigate the exploitation of user profiles defined in social tagging services to personalize Web search. One of the key challenges of a personalization framewo...
Sixearch.org is a peer application for social, distributed, adaptive Web search, which integrates the Sixearch.org protocol, a topical crawler, a document indexing system, a retri...
This paper presents a general method for incorporating prior knowledge into kernel methods such as Support Vector Machines. It applies when the prior knowledge can be formalized b...
This paper describes music information retrieval (MIR) systems featuring automatic speech recognition. Although various interfaces for MIR have been proposed, speech-recognition i...
Masataka Goto, Katunobu Itou, Koji Kitayama, Tetsu...