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Modeling Users' Information Needs in a Document Recommender for Meetings

Maryam Habibi

People are surrounded by an unprecedented wealth of information. Access to it depends on the availability of suitable search engines, but even when these are available, people often do not initiate a search, because their current activity does not allow th ...

EPFL2015

A Scalable Approach to Harvest Modern Weblogs

Olivier Eric Paul Blanvillain

Blogs are one of the most prominent means of communication on the web. Their content, interconnections and influence constitute a unique socio-technical artefact of our times which needs to be preserved. The BlogForever project has established best practic ...

World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd2015

Search Techniques for Code Generation

Tihomir Gvero

This dissertation explores techniques that synthesize and generate program fragments and test inputs. The main goal of these techniques is to improve and support automation in program synthesis and test input generation. This is important because performin ...

EPFL2015

Consumer Segmentation and Knowledge Extraction from Smart Meter and Survey Data

Karl Aberer, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Many electricity suppliers around the world are deploying smart meters to gather fine-grained spatiotemporal consumption data and to effectively manage the collective demand of their consumer base. In this paper, we introduce a structured framework and a d ...

2014

Word Embeddings through Hellinger PCA

Rémi Philippe Lebret, Ronan Collobert

Word embeddings resulting from neural language models have been shown to be a great asset for a large variety of NLP tasks. However, such architecture might be difficult and time-consuming to train. Instead, we propose to drastically simplify the word embe ...

2014

Comparison of Two Methods for Unsupervised Person Identification in TV Shows

Jean-Marc Odobez, Paul Gay

We address the task of identifying people appearing in TV shows. The target persons are all people whose identity is said or written, like the journalists and the well known people, as politicians, athletes, celebrities, etc. In our approach, overlaid name ...

2014

Diverse Keyword Extraction from Conversations

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Maryam Habibi

A new method for keyword extraction from conversations is introduced, which preserves the diversity of topics that are mentioned. Inspired from summarization, the method maximizes the coverage of topics that are recognized automatically in transcripts of c ...

2013

How to build an information time machine

Frédéric Kaplan

The Venice Time Machine project aims at building a multidimensional model of Venice and its evolution covering a period of more than 1000 years. Kilometers of archives are currently being digitized, transcribed and indexed setting the base of the largest d ...

2013

Multimedia content analysis for emotional characterization of music video clips

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ashkan Yazdani, Evangelos Skodras

Nowadays, tags play an important role in the search and retrieval process in multimedia content sharing social networks. As the amount of multimedia contents explosively increases, it is a challenging problem to find a content that will be appealing to the ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2013

Semantic trajectories: Mobility data computation and annotation

Karl Aberer, Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent, Zhixian Yan, Dipanjan Chakraborty

With the large-scale adoption of GPS equipped mobile sensing devices, positional data generated by moving objects (e.g., vehicles, people, animals) are being easily collected. Such data are typically modeled as streams of spatio-temporal (x,y,t) points, ca ...

2013