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ICDIM
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Investigating Web-Based Approaches to Revealing Prototypical Music Artists in Genre Taxonomies
— We present three general approaches to detecting prototypical entities in a given taxonomy and apply them to a music information retrieval (MIR) problem. More precisely, we try...
Markus Schedl, Peter Knees, Gerhard Widmer
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Reducing long queries using query quality predictors
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho
MIR
2006
ACM
200views Multimedia» more  MIR 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
An adaptive graph model for automatic image annotation
Automatic keyword annotation is a promising solution to enable more effective image search by using keywords. In this paper, we propose a novel automatic image annotation method b...
Jing Liu, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Qingshan Liu, ...
KDD
2009
ACM
184views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Thumbs-Up: a game for playing to rank search results
Human computation is an effective way to channel human effort spent playing games to solving computational problems that are easy for humans but difficult for computers to autom...
Ali Dasdan, Chris Drome, Santanu Kolay, Micah Alpe...
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Query-level stability and generalization in learning to rank
This paper is concerned with the generalization ability of learning to rank algorithms for information retrieval (IR). We point out that the key for addressing the learning proble...
Yanyan Lan, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Hang...