Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
As ancient documents are being digitized, systems for retrieving documents or images can now be found in Digital Libraries. With regard to illustrations, the content-based image r...
Peer-to-peer systems are gaining popularity as a means to effectively share huge, massively distributed data collections. In this paper, we consider XML peers, that is, peers that ...
Two stages in measurement of techniques for information retrieval are gathering of documents for relevance assessment and use of the assessments to numerically evaluate effective...
This paper describes the development of a polyphonic music retrieval system with the n-gram approach. Musical n-grams are constructed from polyphonic musical performances in MIDI ...