The exploitation of the discourse structure of a text and the identification of the discourse categories are essential elements for the automatic summarization, as well as for the...
Antoine Blais, Iana Atanassova, Jean-Pierre Descl&...
Accessing specific or salient parts of multimedia recordings remains a challenge as there is no obvious way of structuring and representing a mix of space-based and timebased med...
Focused crawlers are considered as a promising way to tackle the scalability problem of topic-oriented or personalized search engines. To design a focused crawler, the choice of s...
Text clustering is an established technique for improving quality in information retrieval, for both centralized and distributed environments. However, for highly distributed envir...
In this paper we will briefly describe the approaches taken by the Berkeley Cheshire Group for the Adhoc-TEL 2008 tasks (Mono and Bilingual retrieval). Since the AdhocTEL task is ...