This work addresses the soundtrack indexing of multimedia documents. We present and merge two audio classification tools that we have developed. The first one, a speech music clas...
Abstract – The method of latent semantic indexing (LSI) is well known for tackling the synonymy and polysemy problems in information retrieval. However, its performance can be ve...
During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the works...
James Allan, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Mark...
Content-based image retrieval in astronomy needs methods that can deal with an image content made of noisy and diffuse structures. This motivates investigations on how information ...
Many existing indexes on text work at the document granularity and are not effective in answering the class of queries where the desired answer is only a term or a phrase. In this...