This paper presents the second participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) task at CLEF 2006. We present the results of the submi...
In many domains there are specific attributes in documents that carry more weight than the general words in the document. This paper proposes the use of information extraction tec...
The variety of features available to represent multimedia data constitutes a rich pool of information. However, the plethora of data poses a challenge in terms of feature selectio...
As part of the general growth and diversification of media in different modalities, the presence of information in the form of human speech in the world-wide body of digital conte...
A new method for function estimation and variable selection, specifically designed for additive models fitted by cubic splines is proposed.This new method involves regularizing ...
Marta Avalos, Yves Grandvalet, Christophe Ambroise