A method is proposed to detect multi-part man-made or natural objects in complex images. It consists in first extracting simple curves and straight lines from the edge map. Then,...
Peers in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems use conjunctive queries as a way of controlling query cost in the absence of information about the behavior of other peers. Conjunctive ...
This paper describes the TALP-QA system in the context of the CLEF 2005 Spanish Monolingual Question Answering (QA) evaluation task. TALP-QA is a multilingual open-domain QA system...
Abstract. Spatial and temporal granularity can be understood as parameters of context restricting the set of accessible objects in a context. Starting from the idea that this selec...
Abstract. The paper presents a contexts recognition algorithm that uses the Internet as a knowledge base to extract the multiple contexts of a given situation, based on the streami...