INST 734
Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2015
Module 12: Monday November 16 to Sunday November 22

Module Checklist

1. View the introductory video for this module.
2. Read chapter 2 of the Larson and Jones book.
3. View the first reading commentary video.
4. Read chapter 1 of the Schedl et al book.
5. View the second reading commentary video.
6. Read the Downie et al. paper.
7. View the third reading commentary video.
8. Check ELMS to see if you have an additional reading summary assigned to you this week. If so, complete that summary by midnight Thursday and submit it using ELMS.
9. View the Music Retrieval lecture video.
10. View the Speech Retrieval lecture video.
11. View the Interactive Speech Retrieval lecture video.
12. On Friday (or later), read the additional reading summaries that were prepared by your classmates this week.
13. View the Guest Cameo video by Gareth Jones.
14. Don't forget to post at least one substantive comment to this module's discussion forum.
15. Make progress on your project!
16. If you want to hear some of the topics in this module presented differently, consider viewing parts of the optional supplementary videos.

Readings

• Introductory Video
  1. Module 12 Introduction
• Reading Commentary Videos
  1. Comments on the Larson and Jones reading. (13 minutes)
  2. Comments on the Schedl et al reading. (8 minutes) [You can try SoundHound for Android or iPhone]
  3. Comments on the Downie reading. (6 minutes)
• Lecture Videos
  1. Music Retrieval (16 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture]
  2. Speech Retrieval (23 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture] [Speech Compression Examples (scroll to bottom)]
  3. Interactive Speech Retrieval (16 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture]
• Guest Cameo Video
  1. Gareth Jones (9 minutes) (Web Site)
• Optional Supplementary Videos
  1. A video about the MediaEval 2011 workshop. MediaEval includes both speech and video retrieval tasks. You can also see longer interviews with Martha Larson and Gareth Jones.
  2. A talk in 2005 at the University of Edinburgh on Searching Speech: A Research Agenda by Douglas W. Oard.
  3. Two talks at the Library of Congress on Oral History in the Digital Age by Mark Kornbluh and Douglas W. Oard. A video recorded for the project on Speech Recognition for Searching Oral History by Douglas W. Oard is also available.
  4. A 2011 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference presentation by Kira Radinsky on a juke box that literally reads your mind by using a brain-computer interface (best when you start playing it at about the 4 minute point).
  5. Spring 2011 Full-Session Classroom Audio and Slides (streaming)
  6. Fall 2007 Full-Session Classroom Video (234 MB .wmv file -- expect a slow download) (Associated Powerpoint Slides)