In this contribution we propose a generic service for realtime access to context-based music information such as lyrics or score data. In our web-based client-server scenario, a c...
Many different communities have conducted research on the efficacy of relevance feedback in multimedia information systems. Unlike text IR, performance evaluation of multimedia IR...
The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dom...
In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...