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CAISE
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An e-Librarian Service that Understands Natural Language Questions from Students
In this paper we present an e-librarian service which is able to retrieve multimedia resources from a knowledge base in a more efficient way than by browsing through an index or by...
Serge Linckels, Christoph Meinel, Thomas Engel
AMR
2007
Springer
120views Multimedia» more  AMR 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Searching for Music Using Natural Language Queries and Relevance Feedback
We extend an approach to search inside large-scale music collections by enabling the user to give feedback on the retrieved music pieces. In the original approach, a search engine ...
Peter Knees, Gerhard Widmer
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Document-Centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine
We propose a new approach to a music search engine that can be accessed via natural language queries. As with existing approaches, we try to gather as much contextual information a...
Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Markus Schedl, Dominik Sch...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
User biased document language modelling
Capitalizing on the intuitive underlying assumptions of Language Modelling for Ad-Hoc Retrieval we present a novel approach that is capable of injecting the user’s context of th...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Cornelis Joost van ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Investigating the relationship between language model perplexity and IR precision-recall measures
An empirical study has been conducted investigating the relationship between the performance of a generative language model in terms of perplexity and the corresponding informatio...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Keith van Rijsberge...