We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...
Understanding the robustness and rapidness of human scene categorization has been a focus of investigation in the cognitive sciences over the last decades. At the same time, progr...
Julia Vogel, Adrian Schwaninger, Christian Wallrav...
Most prior work on information extraction has focused on extracting information from text in digital documents. However, often, the most important information being reported in an...
This paper proposes the Metadata Production Framework (MPF) as a common platform for generating content-based metadata. A lot of research on extracting useful information from aud...