User queries to search engines are observed to predominantly contain inflected content words but lack stopwords and capitalization. Thus, they often resemble natural language que...
In this paper we apply nonlinear signal analysis to a music information retrieval task. More concretely, we apply the concept of recurrence plots and recurrence histograms to extr...
Joan Serra, Carlos A. de los Santos, Ralph G. Andr...
In TREC 2007, we participate in four tasks of the Blog and Enterprise tracks. We continue experiments using Terrier1 [14], our modular and scalable Information Retrieval (IR) plat...
David Hannah, Craig Macdonald, Jie Peng, Ben He, I...
Images are amongst the most widely proliferated form of digital information due to affordable imaging technologies and the Web. In such an environment, the use of digital watermar...
The classical probabilistic models attempt to capture the Ad hoc information retrieval problem within a rigorous probabilistic framework. It has long been recognized that the prim...