The need for high performance and throughput Question Answering (QA) systems demands for their migration to distributed environments. However, even in such cases it is necessary t...
David Dominguez-Sal, Mihai Surdeanu, Josep Aguilar...
Conventional wide-area video surveillance systems use a network of fixed cameras positioned close to locations of interest. We describe an alternative and flexible approach to w...
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Ló...
Web Information Systems (WIS) support the process of retrieving information from sources on the Web and of presenting them as a hypermedia presentation. Most WIS design ogies focu...
Bas Rutten, Peter Barna, Flavius Frasincar, Geert-...