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Topic Segmentation in a Media Watch System

This paper describes our on-going work on the topic segmentation module of a media watch system. The current version explores not only the typical structure of a broadcast news show, but also its contents, which are automatically produced by the speech recognition module, and the topic indexation module. The performance of the automatic topic segmentation module was compared with the manual seg...

An acoustic driven media watch system

The goal of the media watch system described in this paper is to continuously monitor a TV channel, searching inside its news programs for stories that match the profile of a given user. The system may be tuned to automatically detect the start and end of a news program. Once the start is detected, the system automatically records, transcribes, indexes, summarizes and stores the program. The sy...

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Toward a more trait-centered approach to diffuse (co)evolution.

How species evolve depends on the communities in which they are embedded. Here, we briefly review the ideas underlying concepts of diffuse coevolution, evolution, and selection. We discuss criteria to identify when evolution will be diffuse. We advocate a more explicitly trait-oriented approach to diffuse (co)evolution, and discuss how considering effects of interacting species on fitness alone...

Strategies to make e - business more customer - centered

Building user-centered business and experience design practices in the unpredictable world of digital business requires diplomacy, flexibility and, above all, creativity. In this chapter, we share our experiences of working within small and large organisations which were trying to add customer experience research and testing to e-business design and engineering. Working in leadership positions ...