Much existing research on blogs focused on posts only, ignoring their comments. Our user study conducted on summarizing blog posts, however, showed that reading comments does chan...
We propose a novel technique for the automatic classification of vocal and non-vocal regions in an acoustic musical signal. Our technique uses a combination of harmonic content a...
High-Level music descriptors are key ingredients for music information retrieval systems. Although there is a long tradition in extracting information from acoustic signals, the f...
This paper presents a means of automatically deriving a hierarchical organization of concepts from a set of documents without use of training data or standard clustering technique...
Search engine logs are an emerging new type of data that offers interesting opportunities for data mining. Existing work on mining such data has mostly attempted to discover knowl...