This paper investigates whether Web comments can be exploited for cross-media retrieval. Comparing Web items such as texts, images, videos, music, products, or personal profiles ...
Self-organised maps (SOM) have been widely used for cluster analysis and visualisation purposes in exploratory data mining. In image retrieval applications, SOMs have been used to...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
The bottleneck for dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval is the lack of comprehensive dictionaries, in particular for many different languages. We here introduce a...
: The aim of this work is to present the Musical Score as a new attribute characteristic in an object-oriented database. It defines a new data type for attributes that can be assoc...