For at least the past 40 years, police and prosecutors have had free reign in conducting illegal searches seizures nominally barred by Fourth Amendment. The breadth of exceptions to warrant requirement, lax interpretation probable cause, especially “good faith” doctrine announced U.S. v. Leon led severe violations privacy rights, trauma those wrongly searched or seized, a court system overburde...

The NSF/LC-funded VidArch project is moving beyond a focus on the preservation of data and isolated information objects to the preservation of persistent context that will make today’s videos not only accessible, but also understandable far into the future. This project builds from the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) but also uses the archivist’s traditional descr...

This paper presents ZOMBILINGO, a Game With A Purpose (GWAP) that allows for the dependency syntax annotation of French corpora. The created resource is freely available on the game Web site. Mots-clés : jeux ayant un but, complexité, annotation, syntaxe en dépendances.

Screenshots, known for years as capturing Graphical User Interface by means of print screen button or capturing software, is not only beneficial for creating user guide or user manual document, but also for reverse engineering process. This paper presents a new way of capturing the data appear on a screen by creating the ontology of its interface. Data capturing based on the interaction style o...

Managing international teams with geographically distributed participants is a complex task. The risk of communication breakdowns increases due to cultural and organizational differences grounded in the geographical distribution of the participants. Such breakdowns indicate general misunderstandings and a lack of shared meaning between participants. In this paper, we address the complexity of b...

The semantic web proposes to inject machine meaningful data into the existing human language oriented web. As part of this effort, on the semantic web, URIs are used to identify entities. But there is currently no standard way to specify what it is that any given URI is to identify, or to whom, or when. Recent work in linguistics offers ideas for a solution to this lack. It focuses on the pragm...

The problem of transforming physical behaviour into symbolic knowledge is a kind of \arti cial intelligence complete" problem in the sense that almost all AI research ever done seems to be somewhere relevant to the most general conception of the problem. The hypothesis sketched here claims that if any general computational framework for this problem is to emerge, it will necessarily involve the...

CAROL L. McWILLIAM, M. STEWART, J. B. BROWN, S. McNAIR, K. DESAI, M. L. PATTERSON, N. DEL MAESTRO and B. J. PITTMAN Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Thames Valley Family Practice Research Unit, The University of Western Ontario, St Joseph's Family Medical Centre, London, Ontario, Oxford County Home Care Program, Woodstock, Ontari...