This work presents a first step to a general implementation of the Semantic-Script Theory of Humor (SSTH). Of the scarce amount of research in computational humor, no research ha...
The purpose of this paper is to examine existing methods of semantic information quantification and suggest some alternatives. It begins with an outline of Bar-Hillel and Carnap...
Until recently, referring expression generation (reg) research focused on the task of selecting the semantic content of definite mentions of listener-familiar discourse entities. I...
Understanding of the scene content of a video sequence is very important for content-based indexing and retrieval of multimedia databases. Research in this area in the past severa...
This study presents a content-based image retrieval system IMALBUM based on local region of interest called object of interest (OOI). Each segmented or user-selected OOI is indexe...
— We propose an iconic indexing of images to be exposed on the Web. This should be accomplished by “Keypics”, i.e. auxiliary, simplified pictures referring to the geometrica...
Andrea Cerri, Massimo Ferri, Patrizio Frosini, Dan...
abstractions provides an additional supra-phenotypic vehicle for semantic inheritance, which supports the cultural heritages around which civilizations revolve. The following three...
In this paper, we propose a data-oriented method for inferring the emotion of a speaker conversing with a dialog system from the semantic content of an utterance. We first fully a...
In this overview, we look at embedded clauses that report somebody's attitude or speech. Semantic content in the embedded clause can in some such cases be interpreted from eit...
Earlier this year, a major effort was initiated to study the theoretical and empirical aspects of the automatic detection of semantic concepts in broadcast video, complementing ong...