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SEMCO
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Multimedia Reasoning with Natural Language Support
In this paper we present an approach that combines multimedia reasoning and natural language processing for the semantic integration of automatic and manual image annotations base...
Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Johannes Heinecke, Carsten S...
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Lexical and Discourse Analysis of Online Chat Dialog
One of the ultimate goals of natural language processing (NLP) systems is understanding the meaning of what is being transmitted, irrespective of the medium (e.g., written versus ...
Eric N. Forsythand, Craig H. Martell
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Corpus-based Pattern Induction for a Knowledge-based Question Answering Approach
In this paper, we present an approach which, given a knowledge base and an appropriate text corpus, automatically induces patterns which can be used to query the knowledge base. W...
Philipp Cimiano, Michael Erdmann, Günter Ladw...
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Evolutionary Conceptual Clustering of Semantically Annotated Resources
A clustering method is presented which can be applied to knowledge bases storing semantically annotated resources. The method can be used to discover groupings of structured objec...
Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato, Floriana Esposito
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Integrating Semantic Knowledge into Text Similarity and Information Retrieval
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...
Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych, Max Müh...
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Trust Based Methodology for Web Service Selection
In this paper, we propose a methodology for addressing trust in Semantic Web Services (SWS) based applications. The aim is to enhance the capability-driven selection provided by c...
Stefania Galizia, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Exploring Concept Selection Strategies for Interactive Video Search
Ranked shot lists from 39 automated LSCOM-Lite concept classifiers are investigated with respect to 24 TRECVID 2006 topics. Selecting the best fitting concept or pair of concepts ...
Michael G. Christel, Alexander G. Hauptmann
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Modeling Discriminative Global Inference
Many recent advances in complex domains such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) have taken a discriminative approach in conjunction with the global application of structural and...
Nicholas Rizzolo, Dan Roth
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Challenges and Directions for Semantic Communication
— This paper aims to present ideas to bridge the gap between two conflicting views of information: Shannon information, which is used to model physical layer information, and se...
Volkan Rodoplu, Snehal S. Vadvalkar
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Harnessing Language in Mobile Environments
We describe StartMobile, a prototype system that enables users of cellular telephones and other mobile devices to access information, create information and execute commands on th...
Boris Katz, Gary C. Borchardt, Sue Felshin, Federi...