So far, many researches have been done to develop efficient music retrieval systems, and query-by-humming has been considered as one of the most intuitive and effective query meth...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
The Implicit Query (IQ) prototype is a system which automatically generates context-sensitive searches based on a user’s current computing activities. In the demo, we show IQ ru...
Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric...
Several studies have pointed out the need for accurate mid-level representations of music signals for information retrieval and signal processing purposes. In this paper, we propos...
In TREC 2004, the Database and Information System Lab (DBIS) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) participates in the robust track, which is a traditional ad hoc retrieval t...