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ICDIM
2006
IEEE
16 years 17 days ago
Investigating Web-Based Approaches to Revealing Prototypical Music Artists in Genre Taxonomies
— We present three general approaches to detecting prototypical entities in a given taxonomy and apply them to a music information retrieval (MIR) problem. More precisely, we try...
Markus Schedl, Peter Knees, Gerhard Widmer
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
15 years 8 months ago
Improving Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis with Principal Component Analysis
Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) models have been shown to provide a better model for capturing polysemy and synonymy than Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). However, th...
Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen
CIKM
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Question answering from the web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz
MM
2009
ACM
177views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Transfer non-metric measures into metric for similarity search
Similarity search is widely used in multimedia retrieval systems to find the most similar ones for a given object. Some similarity measures, however, are not metric, leading to e...
Danzhou Liu, Kien A. Hua
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Comparing Approaches for Semantic Service Description and Matchmaking
Matching descriptions of user requirements against descriptions of service capabilities is crucial for the discovery of appropriate services for a given task. To improve the precis...
Sven Schade, Arnd Sahlmann, Michael Lutz, Florian ...