The Spoken Document Processing Working Group, which is part of the special interest group of spoken language processing of the Information Processing Society of Japan, is developi...
In music information retrieval (MIR), there are two main research directions, which are based either on a folder hierarchy and metadata, or on the actual acoustic content. We beli...
As information becomes available in increasing amounts to a wide spectrum of users, the need for a shift towards a more user-centered information access paradigm arises. We develo...
The advent of the Web has brought an unprecedented amount of information together with a large, diverse set of users. Online users are performing a wider variety of tasks than eve...
We describe a system that provides query based associative access to the contents of distributed information servers. In typical distributed information systems there are so many o...
Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, James O'...