We present a simple and efficient entropy coder that combines run-length and Golomb-Rice encoders. The encoder automatically switches between the two modes according to simple rul...
Annotation and retrieval tools for multimedia digital libraries have to cope with the complexity of multimedia content. In particular, when dealing with video content, annotation ...
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
In recent years, the KDD process has been advocated to be an iterative and interactive process. It is seldom the case that a user is able to answer immediately with a single query...
Arianna Gallo, Roberto Esposito, Rosa Meo, Marco B...
There exist various narrative systems, focused on different parts of the complex process of story generation. Some of them are oriented to content planning, and some other to sent...