The mission of the Information Mining department, DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, is exploring, exploiting, and enriching data mining and text mining methods to provide complex decision and product support systems. A key requirement for being able to provide a complex system lies in the different core technologies used, such as symbolic machine learning, statistical learning procedures...

This paper focuses on the accounting concept of impairment of long lived assets and goodwill. The objective is to identify the differences between the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) standards on impairment and to recommend a converged standard that will be acceptable to both bodies. Information for the research was obtaine...

We are building a broadcast news video archive where topics of interest can be retrieved and tracked easily. This paper introduces a structuring method applied to the accumulated news videos. First they are segmented into topic units and then threaded according to their mutual relations. A user interface for topic thread-based news video retrieval is also introduced. Since the topic thread stru...

We need to analyse a large number of e-mails sent by the citizens to the customer services department of a governmental organisation based in Sweden. To carry out this analysis we clustered a large number of e-mails with the aim of automatic e-mail answering. One issue that came up was whether we should use the whole e-mail including the thread or just the original query for the clustering. In ...