One of the challenges of multimedia applications is to provide user-tailored access to information encoded in different media. Particularly, previous research has not yet fully e...
Edit distance matching has been used in literature for word spotting with characters taken as primitives. The recognition rate however, is limited by the segmentation inconsistenci...
Skimming or browsing audio recordings is much more difficult than visually scanning a document because of the temporal nature of audio. By exploiting properties of spontaneous spe...
This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
This work addresses the soundtrack indexing of multimedia documents. We present and merge two audio classification tools that we have developed. The first one, a speech music clas...