Contractual date of delivery: 01/01/04 (2009)
Spirit Eu, Ist Programme, Mark S, Hideo Joho
Abstract: This document presents the methods that will be used to locate (within the SPIRIT terabyte collection) relevant documents for the queries to be used in any testing of the retrieval system....
Contractual date of delivery: 01/01/04 (2009)
Spirit Eu, Ist Programme, Paul Clough, Mark S, Hideo Joho
from textual web pages
Paul Clough, Rob Pasley, Stefan Siersdorfer, Jose San Pedro, Mark S
This paper describes initial work on developing an information system to gather, process and visualise various multimedia data sources related to the South Yorkshire (UK) floods of 2007. The work is...
FAST IMPLEMENTATION FOR NON-LINEAR TIME-SCALING OF STEREO SIGNALS (2008)
Emmanuel Ravelli, Mark S, Juan P. Bello
In this paper we present an improved implementation of Duxbury’s adaptive phase-vocoder approach for audio time-stretching using non-linear time-scaling and temporal masked phase locking at...
Automatic Interlinking of Music Datasets on the Semantic Web (2008)
Yves Raimond, Christopher Sutton, Mark S
In this paper, we describe current efforts towards interlinking music-related datasets on the Web. We first explain some initial interlinking experiences, and the poor results obtained by taking a...
Describing the where – improving image annotation and (2008)
Ross S. Purves, Alistair Edwardes, Mark S
search through geography
Scott Bondurant Chandler, Peter Doolittle, Tom Hergert, Mark S, Ken Potter, Scott Bondurant Chandler
This experimental study investigated the relationship between the independent measures of font selection, type size, and type rendering technology and the dependent measures of legibility, as...
A New approach to Designing Lateral Collision Warning Systems (2008)
Daniel P. Jenkins, Neville A. Stanton, Guy H. Walker, Mark S
Abstract: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 43 % of all fatal accidents reported in 2001 involved a lane or road departure. There are a number of...
Sheffield at ImageCLEF 2003 (2008)
In this paper, we use the Systran machine translation system for translating queries for cross language image retrieval in a pilot experiment at CLEF 2003, called ImageCLEF. The approach we have...
ABSTRACT Hierarchical Presentation of Expansion Terms (2008)
Hideo Joho, Claire Coverson, Mark S, Micheline Beaulieu
Different presentations of candidate expansion terms have not been f,~lly explored in interactive query expansion (IQE). Most existing systems that offer an IQE facility use a list form of...
Active Networking using Programmable Hardware (2008)
Ros G. Fragkiadakis, Nikolaos G. Bartzoudis, David J. Parish, Mark S
Abstract- A new reconfigurable active router architecture is
Mixing and Merging for Spoken Document Retrieval (2008)
Abstract. This paper describes a number of experiments that explored the issues surrounding the retrieval of spoken documents. Two such issues were examined. First, attempting to nd the best use of...
From CLEF to TrebleCLEF: promoting Technology Transfer for Multilingual Information Retrieval (2008)
Martin Braschler, Giorgio Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo, Carol Peters, Mark S
The Cross Language Evaluation Forum has been an activity of DELOS for the last eight years. During this period, it has promoted research in the domain of multilingual information retrieval. This...
PAPER Ambiguous requests: implications for retrieval tests, systems and theories (2008)
Karen Spärck-jones, Stephen E. Robertson, Mark S
In early 2006, as a result of a series of conversations between Steve Robertson, Mark Sanderson and Karen Spärck-Jones, Karen circulated a note summing up our discussions, which were on the topic of...
Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Mark S, Hideo Joho, Paul Clough, Vivien Petras
GeoCLEF is a new track for CLEF 2005. GeoCLEF was run as a pilot track to evaluate retrieval of multilingual documents with an emphasis on geographic search. Existing evaluation campaigns such as...
Sheng-kwei Song, Shu-wei Sun, Corinne Fantz, Mark S, Chen Chang
Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging is capable of early detection of cerebral injury. The visualization of water diffusion anisotropy in cerebral white matters has made diffusion tensor...
———. 1998. Organizational Learning in Various Environmental Conditions. Available (2008)
Mark S, Brian Starr, Social Activity, Indicators Groupware, San Antonio Aag, Macromedia Inc
The Sonic Visualiser: A Visualisation Platform for Semantic Descriptors from Musical Signals (2008)
Chris Cannam, Christian L, Mark S, Juan Pablo Bello
Sonic Visualiser is the name for an implementation of a system to assist study and comprehension of the contents of audio data, particularly of musical recordings. It is a C++ application with a Qt4...
Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Mark S, Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas M, Christa Womser-hacker, ...
This is the third year of the evaluation of geographic information retrieval (GeoCLEF) within the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). GeoCLEF 2006 presented topics and documents in four languages...
Daniela Petrelli, Preben Hansen, Micheline Beaulieu, Mark S, George Demetriou, Patrick Herring
This paper presents a case study of the development of an interface to a novel and complex form of document retrieval: searching for texts written in foreign languages based on native language...
Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Mark S, Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas M, Christa Womser-hacker, ...
This is the third year of the evaluation of geographic information retrieval (GeoCLEF) within the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). GeoCLEF 2006 presented topics and documents in four languages...
Abstract Web-based Delineation of Imprecise Regions (2008)
Avi Arampatzis, Marc Van Kreveld, Iris Reinbacher, Christopher B. Jones, Subodh Vaid, Paul Clough, ...
This paper describes several steps in the derivation of boundaries of imprecise regions using the Web as the information source. We discuss how to use the Web to obtain locations that are part of and...
A PARTIAL SEARCHING ALGORITHM AND ITS APPLICATION FOR POLYPHONIC MUSIC TRANSCRIPTION (2008)
This paper proposes an algorithm for studying spectral contents of pitched sounds in real-world recordings. We assume that the 2 nd-order difference, w.r.t. partial index, of a pitched sound is...
Thomas M, Fredric Gey, Giorgio Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Ray Larson, Mark S, ...
GeoCLEF ran as a regular track for the second time within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2007. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information...
Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Mark S, Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas M, Christa Womser-hacker, ...
Abstract. After being a pilot track in 2005, GeoCLEF advanced to be a regular track within CLEF 2006. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information retrieval...
Thomas M, Fredric Gey, Giorgio Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Ray Larson, Mark S, ...
GeoCLEF ran as a regular track for the second time within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2007. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information...
Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Mark S, Hideo Joho, Paul Clough, Vivien Petras
GeoCLEF is a new track for CLEF 2005. GeoCLEF was run as a pilot track to evaluate retrieval of multilingual documents with an emphasis on geographic search. Existing evaluation campaigns such as...
Sampling, Information Extraction and Summarisation of Hidden Web Databases (2008)
Muhammad Younas B, Anne James A, Mark S, Erson C
Hidden Web databases maintain a collection of specialised documents, which are dynamically generated in response to users ’ queries. The majority of these documents are generated through Web page...
INQUERY and TREC-7 (DRAFT|Workshop notebook version) (2008)
James Allan, Jamie Callan, Mark S, Jinxi Xu, Steven Wegmann
in only four of the tracks that were part of the TREC-7 workshop. We worked on ad-hoc retrieval, ltering, VLC, and the SDR track. This report covers the workdoneoneachtrack successively. We start...
Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Mark S, Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas M, Christa Womser-hacker, ...
Abstract. After being a pilot track in 2005, GeoCLEF advanced to be a regular track within CLEF 2006. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information retrieval...
Testing an automatic organisation of retrieved images into a hierarchy (2008)
Mark S, Jian Tian, Paul Clough
Image retrieval is of growing interest to both search engines and academic researchers with increased focus on both content-based and caption-based approaches. Image search, however, is different...
A scalable framework for multimedia knowledge (2008)
Yves Raimond, Samer A. Abdallah, Mark S, Mounia Lalmas
management
The Eurovision St Andrews Collection of Photographs (2008)
This report describes the Eurovision image collection compiled for the ImageCLEF (Cross Language Evaluation Forum) evaluation exercise. The image collection consists of around 30,000 photographs from...
Morphological Variation of Arabic Queries (2008)
Abstract. Although it has been shown that in test collection based studies, stemming improves retrieval effectiveness in an information retrieval system, morphological variations of queries searching...
Search of Spoken Documents Retrieves Well Recognized Transcripts (2008)
Abstract. This paper presents a series of analyses and experiments on spoken document retrieval systems: search engines that retrieve transcripts produced by speech recognizers. Results show that...
In this paper we present Eurovision, a text-based system for cross-language (CL) image retrieval. The system is evaluated by multilingual users for two search tasks with the system configured in...
User-Centered Interface Design for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (2008)
This paper reports on the user-centered design methodology and techniques used for the elicitation of user requirements and how these requirements informed the first phase of the user interface...
A MARKOV-CHAIN MONTE CARLO APPROACH TO MUSICAL AUDIO SEGMENTATION (2008)
Christophe Rhodes, Samer Abdallah, Mark S
A new unsupervised Bayesian clustering model extracts classified structural segments, intro, verse, chorus, break etc., from recorded music. This extends previous work by identifying all the segments...
The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries. (2008)
Micheline Beaulieu, Mark S, Hideo Joho
ii This report describes a three-year project (2000-03) undertaken in the Information Studies Department at The University of Sheffield and funded by Resource, The Council for Museums, Archives and...
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Sheffield University CLEF 2000 Submission- Bilingual Track: German to English (2007)
Abstract. We investigated dictionary based cross language information retrieval using lexical triangulation. Lexical triangulation combines the results of different transitive translations....
Report on the Glasgow IR group (glair4) submission (2007)
Mark Sanderson Ian, Mark S, Ian Ruthven
this report contain a description of the retrieval strategy used, a analysis of the results, and finally, a discussion of our intentions for TREC 6.
Report on the Glasgow IR group (glair4) submission 1 (2007)
Report On, Mark S, Ian Ruthven
this report contain a description of the retrieval strategy used, a analysis of the results, and finally, a discussion of our intentions for TREC 6. 2 Methodology
Report on the Glasgow IR group (glair4) submission 1 (2007)
Report On, Mark S, Ian Ruthven
this report contain a description of the retrieval strategy used, a analysis of the results, and finally, a discussion of our intentions for TREC 6. 2 Methodology
ABSTRACT Hierarchical Presentation of Expansion Terms (2007)
Hideo Joho, Claire Coverson, Mark S, Micheline Beaulieu
Different presentations of candidate expansion terms have not been fully explored in interactive query expansion (IQE). Most existing systems that offer an IQE facility use a list form of...
Keep It Simple Sheffield – a KISS approach to the Arabic track (2007)
Sheffield’s participation in the inaugural Arabic cross language track is described here. Our goal was to examine how well one could achieve retrieval of Arabic text with the minimum of resources...
Held At Sigir, François Paradis, Ross Wilkinson, Csiro Australia, Csiro Australia, Mark S, ...
Proceedings of the
Cross-Lingual Document Retrieval, Categorisation and (2007)
Navigation Based On, George Demetriou A, Heikki Keskustalo B, Jussi Karlgren C, Deksne D, ...
The widespread use of the Internet across countries has increased the need for access to document collections that are often written in languages different from a user's native language. In this...
Matching Live Sources With Physical Models (2007)
Paul Brossier Mark, Mark S, Mark Plumbley
This paper investigates the use of a physical model template database as the parameter basis for a MPEG-4 Structured Audio (MP4-SA) codec. During analysis, the codec attempts to match the closest...
Yves Paternoster, (partner George Demetriou, Heikki Keskustalo, Patrick Herring, Jussi Karlgren, Fredrik Olson, ...
Contact Person (for dissemination)
Report on the Glasgow IR group (glair4) (2007)
Submission Mark Sanderson, Mark S, Ian Ruthven
this report contain a description of the retrieval strategy used, a analysis of the results, and finally, a discussion of our intentions for TREC 6
Examining repetition in user search behavior (2007)
Abstract. This paper describes analyses of the repeated use of search engines. It is shown that users commonly re-issue queries, either to examine search results deeply or simply to query again,...
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Dragomir R. Radev, Alfred Aho, Shih-fu Chang, Kathleen Mckeown, Dragomir Radev, Bruce Croft, ...
[5] Suresh Bhavnani, Karen Drabenstott, and Dragomir Radev. Towards a unified framework of IR tasks and strategies. In 2001 ASIST Annual
Examining repetition in user search behavior (2007)
Abstract. This paper describes analyses of the repeated use of search engines. It is shown that users commonly re-issue queries, either to examine search results deeply or simply to query again,...
A method for segmenting musical audio with a hierarchical timbre model is introduced. New evidence is presented to show that music segmentation can be recast as clustering of timbre features, and a...
The CLEF Cross Language Image Retrieval Track (ImageCLEF) 2004 (2005)
Paul Clough, Mark S, Henning Müller
Abstract. In this paper we describe ImageCLEF 1, the cross language image retrieval track of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 3). We instigated and ran a pilot experiment in 2003 where...
The CLEF 2004 Cross Language Image Retrieval Track (2005)
Paul Clough, Henning Müller, Mark S
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to outline efforts from the 2004 CLEF cross–language image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF). The aim of this CLEF track is to explore the use of both text and...
Overview of a Bayesian Music Segmenter (2005)
Samer Abdallah Katy, Samer Abdallah, Katy Nol, Mark S, Christophe Rhodes
Introduction A new unsupervised Bayesian clustering model extracts classified structural segments, intro, verse, chorus, break etc., from recorded music. This extends previous work by identifying all...
Theory and Evaluation of a Bayesian Music Structure Extractor (2005)
Samer Abdallah, Katy Noland, Mark Sandler, Mark S
We introduce a new model for extracting end points of music structure segments, such as intro, verse, chorus, break and so forth, from recorded music. Our methods are applied to the problem of...
Symbolic Representation Of Musical Chords: A Proposed Syntax For Text Annotations (2005)
Christopher Harte, Mark S, Samer Abdallah
In this paper we propose a text represention for musical chord symbols that is simple and intuitive for musically trained individuals to write and understand, yet highly structured and unambiguous to...
Spatio-textual indexing for geographical search on the web (2005)
Subodh Vaid, Christopher B. Jones, Hideo Joho, Mark S
Abstract. Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geographical...
Spatio-textual indexing for geographical search on the web (2005)
Subodh Vaid, Christopher B. Jones, Hideo Joho, Mark S
Abstract. Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geographical...
Simac: Semantic interaction with music audio contents (2005)
Perfecto Herrera, Juan Bello, Gerhard Widmer, Mark S, Òscar Celma, Fabio Vignoli, ...
Theory and evaluation of a Bayesian music structure extractor (2005)
Samer Abdallah, Katy Nol, Mark S
We introduce a new model for extracting classified structural segments, such as intro, verse, chorus, break and so forth, from recorded music. Our approach is to classify signal frames on the basis...
The way it sounds : Timbre models for analysis and retrieval of polyphonic music signals (2005)
Jean-julien Aucouturier, François Pachet, Mark S, Senior Member
Abstract—Electronic Music Distribution is in need of robust and automatically extracted music descriptors. An important attribute of a piece of polyphonic music is what is commonly referred to as...
Carol Caldwell, Irene Evans, Andromache Howe, Michael Ikeda, Donald Luery, Terry Pennington, ...
This report presents the research procedures and resultant recommendations for estimation in the Quarterly Financial Report (QFR). The research was motivated by the upcoming QFR migration to the...
A Study of User Interaction with a Concept-based Interactive Query Expansion Support Tool (2004)
Hideo Joho, Mark S, Micheline Beaulieu
Abstract. A medium-scale user study was carried out to investigate the usability of a concept-based query expansion support tool. The tool was fully integrated into the interface of an IR system, and...
Chris Duxbury, Juan Pablo Bello, Mark Sandler, Mark S, Mike Davies
A study is presented for the use of multiresolution analysis-based onset detection in the complex domain. It shows that using variable time-resolution across frequency bands generates sharper...
Measuring a Cross Language Image Retrieval System (2004)
Mark S, Paul Clough, Catherine Paterson, Wai Tung Lo
Cross language information retrieval is a field of study that has received significant research attention, resulting in systems that despite the errors of automatic translation (from query to...
H.: A proposal for the CLEF cross language image retrieval track (ImageCLEF) 2004 (2004)
Paul Clough, Mark S, Henning Müller
Abstract. In this paper we describe our proposal for a cross language image retrieval task called ImageCLEF 1 being run as part of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2). A pilot experiment was...
The spirit collection: an overview of a large web collection (2004)
A large scale collection of web pages has been essential for research in information retrieval and related areas. This paper provides an overview of a large web collection used in the SPIRIT project...
Web-based delineation of imprecise regions (2004)
Avi Arampatzis, Marc Van Kreveld, Iris Reinbacher, Christopher B. Jones, Subodh Vaid, Paul Clough, ...
This paper describes several steps in the derivation of boundaries of imprecise regions using the Web as the information source. We discuss how to use the Web to obtain locations that are part of and...
Daniela Petrelli, Preben Hansen, Micheline Beaulieu, Mark S, George Demetriou, Patrick Herring
This paper presents a case study of the development of an interface to a novel and complex form of document retrieval: searching for texts written in foreign languages based on native language...
Hardware Support for Active Networking (2003)
Ros G. Fragkiadakis, Nikolaos G. Bartzoudis, David J. Parish, Mark S, Alexandros Fragkiadakis
A new reconfigurable active router architecture is presented in this paper. It consists of a software part and a hardware part. The software part is a set of kernelspace and user-space modules...
Complex Domain Onset Detection for Musical Signals (2003)
Chris Duxbury, Juan Pablo Bello, Mike Davies, Mark Sandler, Mark S
We present a novel method for onset detection in musical signals. It improves over previous energy-based and phase-based approaches by combining both types of information in the complex domain. It...
Polyphonic score retrieval using polyphonic audio queries: A harmonic modeling approach (2002)
Jeremy Pickens, Juan Pablo Bello, Giuliano Monti, Tim Crawford, Matthew Dovey, Mark S, ...
This paper extends the familiar “query by humming ” music retrieval framework into the polyphonic realm. As humming in multiple voices is quite difficult, the task is more accurately described as...
Polyphonic score retrieval using polyphonic audio queries: A harmonic modeling approach (2002)
Jeremy Pickens, Juan Pablo Bello, Giuliano Monti, Tim Crawford, Matthew Dovey, Mark S, ...
This paper extends the familiar “query by humming ” music retrieval framework into the polyphonic realm. As humming in multiple voices is quite difficult, the task is more accurately described as...
Eurovision-An Image-Based CLIR System (2002)
This short position paper outlines the aims of the Eurovision project, which will explore cross language retrieval of images via their text captions. We propose that CLEF, as a part of its future...
Efficient multidimensional searching routines for music information retrieval (2001)
Josh Reiss, Jean-julien Aucouturier, Mark S
The problem of Music Information Retrieval can often be formalized as “searching for multidimensional trajectories”. It is well known that string-matching techniques provide robust and effective...
Large scale testing of a descriptive phrase finder". In (2001)
Hideo Joho, Ying Ki Liu, Mark S
This paper describes an evaluation of an existing technique that locates sentences containing descriptions of a query word or phrase. The experiments expand on previous tests by exploring the...
Chris Duxbury, Mike Davies, Mark S
Whilst musical transients are generally acknowledged as holding much of the perceptual information within musical tones, most research in sound analysis and synthesis tends to focus on the steady...
Techniques for automatic music transcription (2000)
Juan Pablo Bello, Giuliano Monti, Mark S
Two systems are reviewed than perform automatic music transcription. The first perform monophonic transcription using an autocorrelation pitch tracker. The algorithm takes advantage of some heuristic...
Sheffield University CLEF 2000 Submission - Bilingual Track: German to English) (2000)
Tim Gollins, Mark Sanderson, Mark S
We investigated dictionary based cross language information retrieval using lexical triangulation. Lexical triangulation combines the results of different transitive translations. Transitive...
Fabio Crestani, Mark S, Erson Y, Marcos Theophylactou, Mounia Lalmas
This paper contains a description of the methodology and results of the three TREC submissions made by the Glasgow IR group �glair�. In addition to submitting to the ad hoc task, submissions were...
Fabio Crestani, Mark S, Erson Y, Marcos Theophylactou, Mounia Lalmas
This paper contains a description of the methodology and results of the three TREC submissions made by the Glasgow IR group (glair). In addition to submitting to the ad hoc task, submissions were...
Xiao Mang Shou, Mark S, Nick Tuffs
This paper describes two experiments that examine the relationship of Word Error Rate (WER) of retrieved spoken documents returned by a spoken document retrieval system. Previous work has...
James Allan, Jamie Callan, Mark S, Jinxi Xu, Steven Wegmann
in only four of the tracks that were part of the TREC-7 workshop. We worked on ad-hoc retrieval, ltering, VLC, and the SDR track. This report covers the work done on each track successively. We start...
Jamie Callan, Jamie Callan, Mark Sanderson, Mark S, Jinxi Xu, Steven Wegmann
This report covers the work done on each track successively. We start with a discussion of IR tools that were broadly applied in our work. 1 Tools applied
Jamie Callan, Jamie Callan, Mark Sanderson, Mark S, Jinxi Xu, Steven Wegmann
This report covers the work done on each track successively. We start with a discussion of IR tools that were broadly applied in our work. 1 Tools applied