An under-explored question in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is to what degree the performance of CLIR methods depends on the availability of high-quality translation...
This paper investigates the issues in polyphonic popular song retrieval. The problems that we consider include singing voice extraction, melodic curve representation, and database...
Abstract. The ACORN provides an agent-based architecture for information retrieval and provision across networks. The main objective of this paper is to present the design and impl...
Hui Yu, Ali A. Ghorbani, Virendra C. Bhavsar, Step...
This work investigates personalized social search based on the user’s social relations – search results are re-ranked according to their relations with individuals in the user...
David Carmel, Naama Zwerdling, Ido Guy, Shila Ofek...
—Visual categorization is important to manage large collections of digital images and video, where textual metadata is often incomplete or simply unavailable. The bag-of-words mo...
Koen E. A. van de Sande, Theo Gevers, Cees G. M. S...