We are introducing novelty detection, i.e. the automatic identification of new or unknown data not covered by the training data, to the field of music information retrieval. Two...
The term frequency normalisation parameter sensitivity is an important issue in the probabilistic model for Information Retrieval. A high parameter sensitivity indicates that a sl...
This paper presents the results of a user study carried out to evaluate an application prototype in which an audio-visual chat conversation between two users is augmented by pictu...
Jeroen Vanattenhoven, Christof van Nimwegen, Matth...
This paper describes work within the NIST Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) over the last three years in designing and implementing evaluations of Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) t...
John S. Garofolo, Cedric G. P. Auzanne, Ellen M. V...
Users commonly rely just on scarce textual annotation when their searches for images are semantic or conceptual based. Rich visual information is often thrown away in basic annota...