In this paper we examine the retrieval performance of adjacent and concurrent n-grams generated from polyphonic music data. We deploy a method to index polyphonic music using a wo...
On the Web, there is a pervasive use of XML to give lightweight semantics to textual collections. Such documentcentric XML collections require a query language that can gracefully...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Bö...
In this paper we demonstrate that speech recognition can be effectively applied to information retrieval (IR) applications. Our system exploits the fact that the intended words of...
The participation of the University of Hildesheim focused on the monolingual German and English and the bilingual German English tasks of GeoCLEF 2006. Based on the results of Geo...
Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hac...
The paper presents a study on large-scale automatic extraction of acronyms and associated expansions from Web data and from the user interactions with this data through Web search...