In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
We propose a novel technique for the automatic classification of vocal and non-vocal regions in an acoustic musical signal. Our technique uses a combination of harmonic content a...
In this paper, we present a multimodal parallel text-image corpus, and propose an image annotation method that exploits the textual information associated with images. Our corpus ...
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
Abstract. This paper presents a language-independent Multilingual Document Clustering (MDC) approach on comparable corpora. Named entites (NEs) such as persons, locations, organiza...