Effective information retrieval is important not only for its own sake but also for improving our understanding and allowing us to evolve our information into knowledge and wisdom...
In this paper we describe GikiCLEF, the first evaluation contest that, to our knowledge, was specifically designed to expose and investigate cultural and linguistic issues involve...
Hierarchical penalization is a generic framework for incorporating prior information in the fitting of statistical models, when the explicative variables are organized in a hiera...
Marie Szafranski, Yves Grandvalet, Pierre Morizet-...
: Researchers in academia and practitioners in the field are concluding that object orientation (OO) supports well the stages of technical design and programming but not the stages...
In this paper we claim that the new generation of Web-based systems should offer an intelligent, flexible and interactive support to their users, coupled with the ability to provi...