We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
Recent progress in information extraction technology has enabled a vast array of applications that rely on structured data that is embedded in natural-language text. In particular...
Abstract. Following a review of current hidden objects detection techniques in a range of security applications, a strategy based on an innovative, low-cost photometric stereo tech...
Jiuai Sun, Melvyn L. Smith, Abdul R. Farooq, Lyndo...
At many universities, web lectures have become an integral part of the e-learning portfolio over the last few years. While many aspects of the technology involved, like automatic ...
We propose a novel approach to find aliases of a given name from the web. We exploit a set of known names and their aliases as training data and extract lexical patterns that conv...