The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
Deductive database technology represents an important step towards the goal of developing highly-declarative database programming languages. In order to make deductive databases a ...
Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania, Vincenzo Gervasi, ...
Software architectures shift the focus of developers from lines-of-code to coarser-grained elements and their interconnection structure. Architecture description languages (ADLs) ...
Visual programming languages (VPLs) provide notations for representing both the intermediate and the final results of a knowledge engineering process. Whereas some VPLs particula...
The Nhan Luong, Patrick Etcheverry, Christophe Mar...
The paper presents a contribution to image indexing consisting in a weighting model for visible objects – or image objects – in home photographs. To improve its effectiveness ...