This paper discusses in detail our approaches for producing the submitted summaries to TRECVID, including the two baseline methods. The cluster method performed well in terms of coverage, and adequately in terms of user satisfaction, but did take longer to review. We conducted additional evaluations using the same TRECVID assessment interface to judge 2 additional methods for summary generation...

Over the past four years, we have used evolving versions of IRI (Interactive Remote Instruction), a computer-based system to support distance education, to teach a variety of semester-long regularly scheduled for-credit classes. These classes are at sites up to 320 km apart. In this paper we give a brief description of IRI, some initial evaluations of its use, and describe the architecture used...

JANUS is a multilingual speech-to-speech translation system, which has been designed to translate spontaneous spoken language in a limited domain. In this paper, we describe our recent preliminary eeorts to expand the domain of coverage of the system from the rather limited Appointment Scheduling domain, to the much richer Travel Planning domain. We compare the two domains in terms of out-of-vo...

In this work we deal with the problem of scheduling meetings between research groups, companies and investors in a scientific and technological forum. We provide a CP formulation and a Pseudo-Boolean formulation of the problem, and empirically test the performance of different solving techniques, such as CP, lazy clause generation, SMT, and ILP, on industrial and crafted instances of the proble...

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The Resource-constrained Project Scheduling Problem (Rcpsp), in which a schedule must obey the resource constraints and the precedence constraints between pairs of activities, is one of the most studied scheduling problems. An important variation of the problem (RcpspDc) is to find a schedule which maximises the net present value (discounted cash flow), when every activity has a given cash flow...

In every tunnel boring machine (TBM) tunneling project, there is an initial low production phase so-called the Learning Phase Period (LPP), in which low utilization is experienced and the operational parameters are adjusted to match the working conditions. LPP can be crucial in scheduling and evaluating the final project time and cost, especially for short tunnels for which it may constitute a ...

OBJECTIVES To address the "millennial morbidities," pediatricians must partner with community-based organizations to develop interventions. Little is known about the capacity of the resulting programs for program evaluation or the importance of evaluation in project success and sustainability. The objective of this study was to examine the capacity of community-based health programs to conduct ...

This paper describes the work achieved in CESART (Campagne d’Evaluation des Systèmes d’Acquisition des Ressources Terminologiques) evaluation project supported by the French Ministry of Research and Technology1 and coordinated by the University of Lille 3 and ELDA. The project deals with the evaluation of term and semantic relation extraction from corpora in French. CESART logically follows on ...