During the design of storm drainage system, many decisions are involved on the basis of rules of thumb, heuristics, judgment, code of practice and previous experience of the design...
In this paper, we describe our experimentations in answer formulation for question-answering (QA) systems. In the context of QA, answer formulation can serve two purposes: improvin...
Recovering articulated human motion is an important task in many applications including surveillance and human-computer interaction. In this paper, a hierarchical factorization met...
Sheffield’s contribution to the interactive cross language information retrieval track took the approach of comparing user’s abilities at judging the relevance of machine tran...
The paper shows a distributed architecture for autonomous robot navigation. The architecture is based on three modules that are implemented on separate and interacting agents: the...