We investigate the novel problem of event recognition from news webpages. "Events" are basic text units containing news elements. We observe that a news article is always...
Wikipedia provides an interesting amount of text for more than hundred languages. This also includes languages where no reference corpora or other linguistic resources are easily ...
Pervasive computing environments have traditionally used distributed sensors to gather user context. EPC (Electronic Product Code) information extracted from RFID tags could addit...
Spatial and temporal data have become ubiquitous in many application domains such as the Geosciences or life sciences. Sophisticated database management systems are employed to ma...
This paper presents a new method to extract shapes in drop caps and particularly the most important shape: Letter itself. This method relies on a combination of a Aujol and Chambo...