Abstract. Similarity computation is a difficult issue in music information retrieval, because it tries to emulate the special ability that humans show for pattern recognition in ge...
In this paper, the automatic annotation task of the 2005 CLEF cross-language image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF) is described. This paper focuses on the database used, the task s...
We present a new model for detection of noun phrases in unrestricted text, whose most outstanding feature is its flexibility: the system is able to recognize noun phrases similar ...
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...
We consider the problem of improving named entity recognition (NER) systems by using external dictionaries--more specifically, the problem of extending state-of-the-art NER system...