The expeditious proliferation of the internet to ubiquity, the infrangible dependence of global enterprises on Web services, the universal adoption of SOA, cloud computing, social media and online publishing has made XML the lingua franca of the digital age and has generated a plethora of data in XML. The immense popularity of NoSQL and document-oriented data stores have also added tremendously...

Integration of text and documents into database management systems has been the subject of much research. However, most of the approaches are limited to data retrieval. Collaborative text editing, i.e. the ability for multiple users to work on a document instance simultaneously, is rarely supported. Also, documents mostly consist of plain text only, and support very limited meta data storage or...

Document (re)structuration consists in mapping documents coming from different sources, with different formats, onto a predefined semistructured format. This generic problem appears in different applications settings like heterogeneous semi-structured databases querying, peer to peer systems, legacy document conversion, XML information retrieval. In the paper, we define the restructuration prob...

The application of object-oriented database has only started. We applied an objeceoriented database “Jasmine* to to au automobile service document publishing system “MASCOT” and confirmed its practibility. The service material is a “hyper document” which includes logical structure and reference structure. The conventional database cannot deal with them easily. To overcome these difficulities, i...

In this paper we describe a camera based document image retrieval system which is targeted toward camera phones. Our goal is to enable the device to identify which of a known set of documents it is “looking at”. This paper provides two key contributions 1) a local context descriptor that effectively rules out irrelevant documents using only a small patch of the document image and 2) a layout ve...

Techniques for evaluating queries against a distributed text document database allow uniform access to separate collections in the database. One such technique is to first choose a subset of collections, via a selection index. The index captures information about each collection such as terms occurring in documents, term statistics, and collection statistics. A possible implementation of such a...

ÐAutomatic transformation of paper documents into electronic documents requires geometric document layout analysis at the first stage. However, variations in character font sizes, text line spacing, and document layout structures have made it difficult to design a general-purpose document layout analysis algorithm for many years. The use of some parameters has therefore been unavoidable in prev...

Agenda • EC-Joint Research Centre (JRC) – Who we are • Monolingual plagiarism detection (PD) work at the JRC • Cross-lingual similarity calculation at the JRC • Named entity (NE) matching across languages • Linking related news items across languages • Identifying translations of documents • JRC's multilingual tools and resources • Summary JRC-Who we are • European Commission (scientific-techni...

We will report on the participation of GESIS at the first CHiC workshop (Cultural Heritage in CLEF). Being held for the first time, no prior experience with the new data set, a document dump of Europeana with ca. 23 million documents, exists. The most prominent issues that arose from pretests with this test collection were the very unspecific topics and sparse document representations. Only hal...

Reliable data on the capabilities of professional document examiners are scarce, rendering most past characterizations of these capabilities somewhat speculative. We report on a comprehensive test administered to more than 100 professional document examiners, intended to close this data gap in the area of writer identification. Each examiner made 144 pair-wise comparisons of freely-created orig...