This paper examines the use of XML for modern extractionbased question answering (QA). We feel that the XML community has taken too narrow a view of structured retrieval, and that...
This paper describes a method to identify partially occluded shapes which are randomly oriented in 3D space. The goal is to match the object contour present in an image with an ob...
We describe a video indexing system that aims at indexing large video files in relation to the presence of similar faces. The detection of near-frontal view faces is done with a c...
: Documents such as spreadsheets are easy to create, edit, and exchange. However, their use causes a set of well known problems such as poor data quality, lack of multi user suppor...
The idea of Conceptual Neighbourhood Diagram (CND) has proved its relevance in the areas of qualitative reasoning about time and qualitative reasoning about space. In this work, a ...