Many music works produced in the last century still exist only as original manuscripts or as photocopies. Preserving them entails their digitalization and consequent accessibility in a digital format easy-to-manage which encourages browsing, retrieval, search and analysis while providing a generalized access to the digital material. The manual process to carry out this task is very time consumi...

We present a software solution for over-the-air reconfiguration of remote software radio terminals using the free GNU Radio toolkit, facilitating the development of Cognitive Radio applications. The modular architecture allows for separating the cognitive engine from the signal processing algorithms, thus allowing fast implementation, verification and easier testing.

A frequent type of annotations in text corpora are labeled text segments. Generalpurpose annotation tools tend to be overly comprehensive, often making the annotation process slower and more error-prone. We present WAT-SL, a new web-based tool that is dedicated to segment labeling and highly customizable to the labeling task at hand. We outline its main features and exemplify how we used it for...

Currently, many industrial initiatives focus on web-based applications. In this context an important requirement is that the user should only rely on a standard web browser. Hence the underlying security services also rely solely on a browser for interaction with the user. Browser-based identity federation is a prominent example of such a protocol. Unfortunately, very little is still known abou...

As is the nature of the discipline, a majority of speech and language researchers spend a large amount of their time acquiring and transforming data into analyzable and interpretable forms to gain a better understanding of a certain subject matter. In this paper we present a collection of tools that aid the researcher in this sometimes tedious and error-prone process. The tools presented here a...

Integrating multiple heterogeneous data sources into applications is a time-consuming, costly and error-prone engineering task. Relatively mature technologies exist that make integration tractable from an engineering perspective. These technologies, however, have many limitations, and hence present opportunities for breakthrough research. This paper briefly describes some of these limitations, ...

In this paper, we investigate some language acquisition facets of an auto-adaptative system that can automatically acquire most of the relevant lexical knowledge and authoring practices for an application in a given domain. This is the LELIO project: producing customized LELIE solutions. Our goal, within the framework of LELIE (a system that tags language uses that do not follow the Constrained...

Visualisation offers a huge potential for representing information and knowledge. A number of different proposals from diverse research areas have been over the time presented as techniques that may be used for sharing information and knowledge. This paper briefly introduces such proposals by providing an introduction to cognitive maps as humane representations, as they provide in their alterna...

An application framework provides a reusable design and implementation for a family of software systems. Application developers extend the framework to build their particular applications using hooks. Hooks are the places identified to show how to use and customize the framework. Hooks define the Framework Interface Classes (FICs) and the specifications of their methods. As part of the developm...

The goal of this tutorial is to reduce the "barriers of entry" for cognitive scientists interested in studying perceptual/ cognitive processes with complex, real-world stimuli and in doing so with confidence in their underlying techniques and conceptual approach. The content of this session will span basic topics in the selection/creation and (crucial) preprocessing of complex images; powerful ...