How to assign appropriate weights to terms is one of the critical issues in information retrieval. Many term weighting schemes are unsupervised. They are either based on the empir...
Abstract. Most of the previous research on term weighting for information retrieval has focused on developing specialized parametric term weighting functions. Examples include TF.I...
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
This paper describes the application of techniques derived from text retrieval research to the content-based querying of image databases. Specically, the use of inverted les, fre...
Abstract. The main area of work in computer music related to information systems is known as music information retrieval (MIR). Databases containing musical information can be clas...