The goal of my dissertation research is to investigate the combination of new evidence sources for improving information retrieval on speech collections. The utility of these evid...
Most standard information retrieval models use a single source of information (e.g., the retrieval corpus) for query formulation tasks such as term and phrase weighting and query ...
Statistical language modeling has been successfully used for speech recognition, part-of-speech tagging, and syntactic parsing. Recently, it has also been applied to information r...
Despite the “fuzzy” nature of musical similarity, which varies from one person to another, perceptual low level features combined with appropriate classification schemes have...
In many domains there are specific attributes in documents that carry more weight than the general words in the document. This paper proposes the use of information extraction tec...