We present in this paper a combination of Machine Learning based Information Retrieval (IR) techniques and stochastic language modelling in a hierarchical system that extracts sur...
This paper investigates whether Web comments are of descriptive nature, that is, whether the combined text of a set of comments is similar in topic to the commented object. If so,...
We present a report about our participation in the ImageCLEF photo task 2006 and a short description of our new framework for future use in further CLEF participations....
The use of salient regions is an increasingly popular approach to image retrieval. For situations where object retrieval is required and where the foreground and background can be ...
A content-based retrieval model for tackling the mismatch problems specific to music data is proposed and implemented. The system uses a pitch profile encoding for queries in any ...