The problem of audio information retrieval is familiar to anyone who has returned from
vacation to find an answering machine full of messages. While there is not yet an “AltaVista” …

In the 21st century, digital libraries will have a tremendous positive impact on education, as
sharing of learning resources increases, supporting not only distance education but also on …

We consider the problem of using a large unlabeled sample to boost performance of a
learning algorit, hrn when only a small set of labeled examples is available. In particular, we …

When I planned this book in 1999, it was intended to be a survey of current work in text
summarization. The survey would discuss various efforts in the context of a framework for …

In addition to use as a text, Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice holds value for
all individuals and institutions involved in training for information retrieval and related …

Existing audio tools handle the increasing amount of computer audio data inadequately. The
typical tape-recorder paradigm for audio interfaces is inflexible and time consuming …

Most documents are about more than one subject, but the majority of natural language
processing algorithms and information retrieval techniques implicitly assume that every …

The Informedia Digital Library Project allows full content indexing and retrieval of text, audio
and video material. Segmentation is an integral process in the Informedia digital video …

Indexing and content-based retrieval are necessary to handle the large amounts of audio
and multimedia data that is becoming available on the Web and elsewhere. Since manual …

Digital audio and especially music collections are becoming a major part of the average
computer user experience. Large digital audio collections of sound effects are also used by …