Many applications in analytical domains often have the need to "connect the dots" i.e., query about the structure of data. In bioinformatics for example, it is typical t...
Public administrations of all over the world invest an enormous amount of resources in e-government. How the success of egovernment can be measured is often not clear. E-governmen...
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Ga...
The Available Bit Rate (ABR) service has been developed to support 21st century data applications over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). The ABR service uses a closed-loop rate-bas...
This paper presents a novel framework to localize in a photograph prominent irregularities in facial skin, in particular nevi (moles, birthmarks). Their characteristic configurati...