We describe a parser for robust and flexible interpretation of user utterances in a multi-modal system for web search in newspaper databases. Users can speak or type, and they can...
We present an algorithm that extracts the largest shape within a specificclass, starting from a set of image edgels. The algorithm inherits the Best-First Segmentation approach [jp...
The evolution of software systems over many years often leads to unnecessarily complex and in exible designs which in turn lead to a huge amount of e ort for enhancements and main...
TalkMiner is a search engine for lecture webcasts. Lecture videos are processed to recover a set of distinct slide images and OCR is used to generate a list of indexable terms fro...
John Adcock, Matthew Cooper, Laurent Denoue, Hamed...
This paper proposes a new approach for multicriteria optimization which aggregates the objective functions and uses a line search method in order to locate an approximate efficien...