In this paper we introduce POLAR, a probabilistic objectoriented logical framework for annotation-based information retrieval. In POLAR, the knowledge about digital objects, annot...
The importance of annotations, as a by-product of the reading activity, cannot be overstated. Annotations help users in the process of analyzing, re-reading, and recalling detaile...
Abstract: With new techniques, such as Microformats or RDFa, for integrating semantics into existing web formats, we expect a strong increase of semantically annotated documents in...
: Metadata is used to describe documents and applications, improving information seeking and retrieval and its understanding and use. Metadata can be expressed in a wide variety of...
—Transcription of handwritten words in historical documents is still a difficult task. When processing huge amount of pages, document-centered approaches are limited by the trad...
Laurent Guichard, Joseph Chazalon, Bertrand Co&uum...