This paper presents a new discriminative model for information retrieval (IR), referred to as linear discriminant model (LDM), which provides a flexible framework to incorporate a...
This paper presents the results of the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the Mono-lingual and Multi-lingual tasks at CLEF 2004. For these tasks we used an approach ba...
Music information retrieval is characterized by a number of various user information needs. Systems are being developed that allow searchers to find melodies, rhythms, genres, an...
Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...