Multimedia content geotagging is potentially useful in a wide variety of application. Although an increasing number of existing devices include geotagging options, a wide majority of online content is still not geotagged and methods for efficient automatic geotagging are needed. Here we describe CEA LIST’s participation to the MediaEval 2012 Placing Task [3]. We submitted runs that exploit eith...

In a digital society, people have access to all kinds of electronic information as online users. They have also contributed various content for exchanging ideas in the online community, which has not only extended the traditional knowledge sharing channels, but has also led to concerns about content quality and reliability. The literature suggests that user involvement in collaboratively evalua...

This paper presents a systems approach to facilitate effective learning object acquisition through the use of communications, modeling, and the agent metaphor. By changing the emphasis that is usually placed on metadata creation and interpretation (which can be problematic) we instead focus on the pragmatics of end use data facilitated through agent negotiation.

Using the terms of (Reiter and Dale, 2000), we consider that the Document Planner architecture is pipelined: first the content determination task does its work, and then the document structuring task takes the result and build a document plan. Following the work of (Roussarie, 2000), we adopt SDRT (Asher, 1993; Asher and Lascarides, 1998), which was designed first for text understanding, for th...

In this article we present a simple method to extract Spanish nouns with the linguistic property of “human” animacy. We describe a non-supervised method based on lexical patterns and on a person name list enlarged from a collection of newspaper texts. Results were obtained from the Web filters and estimation methods are proposed to validate them.

Many Chinese companies have built their online presences but few studies examine if the Chinese corporate websites follow the recommended design guidelines. Through a content analysis of 487 websites of the largest Chinese companies, the study analyses 55 content and design elements of the corporate homepages. The results provide a comprehensive evaluation on the homepage content and design cha...

With the computer being more integrated into daily life, more and more people need to read online information. Online information is often formatted in a similar fashion to printed information. But are they similar in their effectiveness? The present study investigates the effect of information format on user’s preference and reading time when people read online information or printed informati...