995 research outputs found
The CHORUS gap analysis on user-centered methodology for design and evaluation of multi-media information access systems
CHORUS is a Coordination Action, a specific type of project funded by the European commission under its research programmes, intended to bring together research projects with common goals, in the field of search technologies for digital audio-visual content, one of the strategic objectives of the current research frame program. CHORUS coordinates a number of research projects in the general area of audio-visual and multi-media information access and management.
The most important single contribution of the CHORUS work plan will be to provide a survey of the field and a roadmap with a gap analysis for the realisation of viable audio-visual search engines by European partners. This is done by several means. CHORUS organises Think-Tanks with industrial participation, focussed workshops to treat specific questions, and more general conferences for academic discussions. CHORUS is now in its final phase, and is currently preparing its final report together with a final conference to mark its publication
CHORUS Deliverable 4.4: Report of the 2nd CHORUS Conference
The Second CHORUS Conference and third Yahoo! Research Workshop on the Future of Web Search was held during April 4-5, 2008, in Granvalira, Andorra to discuss future directions in multi-medial information access and other specialised topics in the near future of retrieval. Attendance was at capacity, with 97 participants from 11 countries and 3 continents
Dilemma - An Instant Lexicographer
Dilemma is intended to enhance quality and increase productivity of expert
human translators by presenting to the writer relevant lexical information
mechanically extracted from comparable existing translations, thus replacing -
or compensating for the absence of - a lexicographer and stand-by terminologist
rather than the translator. Using statistics and crude surface analysis and a
minimum of prior information, Dilemma identifies instances and suggests their
counterparts in parallel source and target texts, on all levels down to
individual words. Dilemma forms part of a tool kit for translation where focus
is on text structure and over-all consistency in large text volumes rather than
on framing sentences, on interaction between many actors in a large project
rather than on retrieval of machine-stored data and on decision making rather
than on application of given rules. In particular, the system has been tuned to
the needs of the ongoing translation of European Community legislation into the
languages of candidate member countries. The system has been demonstrated to
and used by professional translators with promising results.Comment: 3 pages, LaTeX, in proceedings of COLING 9
CHORUS Deliverable 4.3c: Affect, appeal, and sentiment as factors influencing interaction with multi media information
The 7th CHORUS workshop on “Affect, Appeal, and Sentiment as Factors Influencing Interaction with
Multimedia Information” was held on May 28, 2009, Brussels, immediately following the Third CHORUS
Conference, hosted by the European Commission at their Avenue Beaulieu premises. Participation was limited
to invited speakers, and comprised sixteen researchers from fourteen research institutes in eight countries
Textual Stylistic Variation: Choices, Genres and Individuals
This chapter argues for more informed target metrics for the statistical processing of stylistic variation in text collections. Much as operationalized relevance proved a useful goal to strive for in information retrieval, research in textual stylistics, whether application oriented or philologically inclined, needs goals formulated in terms of pertinence, relevance, and utility — notions that agree with reader ex- perience of text. Differences readers are aware of are mostly based on utility — not on textual characteristics per se. Mostly, readers report stylistic differences in terms of genres. Genres, while vague and undefined, are well-established and talked about: very early on, readers learn to distinguish genres. This chapter discusses variation given by genre, and contrasts it to variation occasioned by individual choice
Sublanguages and Registers -- A Note On Terminology
The term sublanguage from mathematical linguistics
confuses interaction researchers and leads them
to believe that implementing natural language interfaces is easier than it is. The term register from sociolinguistics is proposed instead
Assessed Relevance and Stylistic Variation
Texts exhibit considerable stylistic variation. This paper reports an
experiment where a large corpus of documents is analyzed using various
simple stylistic metrics. A subset of the corpus has been previously
assessed to be relevant for answering given information retrieval
queries. The experiment shows that this subset differs significantly from
the rest of the corpus in terms of the stylistic metrics studied
Affect, appeal, and sentiment as factors influencing interaction with multimedia information
Mostly a slight reformulation of the report from a CHORUS workshop.CHORU
CHORUS Deliverable 4.1: Report of the 1st CHORUS Workshop
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