Retrieval tasks provide learners with an opportunity to focus both on meaning and on form. There are four different retrieval directions. The present study aimed to identify the optimal direction of recall type retrievals during reading and to investigate the outcomes of each one. Forty-eight intermediate EFL learners took part in the study. One of the experimental groups was provided with the ...

This report presents an overview of the data mining contest organized in conjunction with the 19 International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2011), in days between Jan 10 and Mar 21, 2011, on TunedIT competition platform. The contest consisted of two independent tasks, both related to music information retrieval: recognition of music genres and recognition of instrum...

The goal of this article is to prove that the mixture of different classification and mining techniques coming from so different areas such as the numeric and the symbolic worlds can combine their mutual advantages in order to produce a significant enhancement of the overall classification and retrieval performance in a Data Mining or Information Retrieval context.

ISEApeaks retrieves and handles DNA sequencer raw data (peak area and nucleotidic length). This Macintosh package efficiently interfaces GeneScan and Immunoscope softwares to Excel by extracting data from scattered files, organizing data and gathering it into a unique peak database for all samples.

Users in different countries may have different music preferences, possibly due to geographical, economic, linguistic, and cultural factors. Revealing the relationship between music preference and cultural socio-economic differences across countries is of great importance for music information retrieval in a cross-country or cross-cultural context. Existing works are usually based on small samp...

An e-lesson is comprised of a “body” and a “view”. The body is the actual content of the e-lesson and the assumption is that it is an html document. The view is the metadata section of this html document, and it is made up of a set of words and phrases that are either explicit or implicit and are referred to as “terms”. This paper proposes a methodology that is capable of discovering the physic...

The applications of spatial data similarity search are increasingly needed nowadays, and accordingly high dimensional index becomes one key technology to solve the problem of spatial data similarity search. Firstly, the distribution of high dimensional data is in-depth analyzed, and then high dimensional data retrieval for spatial data similarity search is also discussed. Secondly, based on the...

A lot of recent work has shown that the proximity of terms can be exploited to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. We review a recent approach that uses an intuitive framework to incorporate proximity functions into vector based information retrieval systems. More importantly, we present several proximity functions that were learned within this framework and show that they...