Subjective quality perception studies with human observers are essential for multimedia system design. Such studies are known to be expensive and difficult to administer. They req...
This paper discusses how Information Extraction is used to understand and manage Dialogue in the EU-funded Companions project. This will be discussed with respect to the Senior Co...
Roberta Catizone, Alexiei Dingli, Hugo Pinto, Yori...
Despite the many research efforts invested recently in peerto-peer search engines, none of the proposed system has reached the level of quality and efficiency of their centralized...
Pascal Felber, Toan Luu, Martin Rajman, Etienne Ri...
The paper makes three points of significance for IR research: (1) The Cranfield paradigm of IR evaluation seems to lose power when one looks at human instead of system performance....
The law recently approved by the the Regional Administration of Tuscany (January 2004) regulates the promotion of electronic administration and the development of the Information ...