Statistical language modeling (SLM) has been used in many different domains for decades and has also been applied to information retrieval (IR) recently. Documents retrieved using...
In this paper, we consider the problem of keyword query cleaning for structured databases from a probabilistic approach. Keyword query cleaning consists of rewriting the user quer...
We introduce in this paper a generalization of the widely used hidden Markov models (HMM's), which we name "structural hidden Markov models" (SHMM). Our approach is ...
Abstract Trained musicians intuitively produce expressive variations that add to their audience's enjoyment. However, there is little quantitative information about the kinds ...
Harmonic analysis is a standard musicological tool for understanding many pieces of Western classical music and making comparisons among them. Traditionally, this analysis is done...