We describe the construction of the CODA corpus, a parallel corpus of monologues and expository dialogues. The dialogue part of the corpus consists of expository, i.e., informatio...
This paper introduces a new algorithm to parse discourse within the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). Our method is based on recent advances in the field of statisti...
This paper presents techniques for multimedia annotation and their application to video summarization and translation. Our tool for annotation allows users to easily create annota...
The GDA (Global Document Annotation) project proposes a tag set which allows machines to automatically infer the underlying semantic/pragmatic structure of documents. Its objectiv...
We propose a novel semantic video summarization framework, which generates video skimmings that guarantee both the balanced content coverage and the visual coherence. First, we co...