Main professional sound effects (SFX) providers offer their collections using… methods in a commercial sound effect management system. INTRODUCTION

SEMANTIC AND PERCEPTUAL MANAGEMENT OF SOUND EFFECTS IN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS P. Cano, M. Koppenberger, S. Le Groux, J. Ricard and N. Wack Univeitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain ABSTRACT Main professional sound effects (SFX) provide offer their collectio using standard text-retrieval technologies. SFX cataloging is an error-prone and labor couming task. The vagueness of the query specification, normally one or two words, together with the ambiguity and informality of natural languages affects the quality of the search: Some relevant sounds are not retrieved and some irrelevant ones are presented to the user. The use of ontologies alleviates some of the ambiguity problems inherent to natural languages, yet they pose othe. It is very complicated to devise and maintain an ontology that account for the level of detail needed

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