We propose in this paper a method for extracting highlights from a sport TV broadcast. Unlike the existing highlights-extracting approaches our method does not require modeling of domainspecific events that are supposed to be interpreted by the user as highlights. Instead, we search for highlights at places where strong excitement is evoked in the user by the content of a video. It is namely re...

This study mapped the personality and genetics of risky excitement-seekers focusing on skydiving behavior. We compared 298 skydivers to demographically matched controls across NEO Personality Inventory-3 domains, facets, 240 items. The most significant item-level effects were aggregated into a poly-item score skydiving-associated markers (Study 1), where higher scores describe individuals who e...

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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of the ambient odor of lavender as a treatment for travel-induced excitement in dogs. DESIGN Clinical trial. Animals-32 dogs with a history of travel-induced excitement in owners' cars. PROCEDURES Each dog was studied during travel in the owner's car to a familiar walking site during 2 conditions of olfactory stimulation. The first condition was a control ...

This paper is based on a speech delivered at the ECOOP'98 Conference Banquet. It is not a literal transcription of my talk, since no recording was made, but has been reconstructed ex post facto based upon my speaker's notes and my memory. I have also taken the opportunity to add some headings and references. Distinguished Chairmen, Members of the Conference Committee, Representatives of the spo...

This paper presents the Excitement Open Platform (EOP), a generic architecture and a comprehensive implementation for textual inference in multiple languages. The platform includes state-of-art algorithms, a large number of knowledge resources, and facilities for experimenting and testing innovative approaches. The EOP is distributed as an open source software.