Dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche sur la conception d’observatoires de pratiques agricoles, nous nous intéressons au recueil et à la formalisation des expériences passées, sur la base desquelles nous voulons bâtir un système d’aide à la conception de tels observatoires. Nous disposons pour cela de corpus d’entretiens où des responsables d’observatoires relatent leur expérience. Dans ces na...

People are moved to act following exposure to media coverage of specific events. For example, the “Werther Effect” is the popular term for the observed increase in suicides following media coverage of suicides. Here we develop a finegrained method for assessing the effect of news stories on the intentions of internet users. Our method assesses the likelihood that a person was exposed to a given...

Online news media sites are emerging as the primary source of news for a large number of users. The selection of ‘frontpage’ stories on these media sites usually takes into consideration several crowdsourced popularity metrics, such as number of views or shares by the readers. In this work, we focus on automatically recommending front-page stories in such media websites. When recommending news ...

In this paper, we present a machine learning based approach for estimating antecedents of anaphorically used personal pronouns in Turkish sentences using a decision tree classification technique coupled with the ensemble learning method. The technique learns from an annotated corpus, which has been compiled mostly from various popular child stories.

according to wejarkard ī dēnīg, the brave and blessed esfandiyār becomes brazen-bodied by the praying of the prophet ašū – zarduxšt in the ceremony of drōn yašt. the prophet gives him some pomegranate seeds and esfandiyār is rendered invulnerable. pahlavi zand ī vandidād says that esfandiyār cannot be hurt, harmed, threatened or wounded by sword, knife or any other weapon because of his invulne...

Although the question of equal rights for members of the female sex was raised during the founding of the New England colonies (as, for example, when Anne Hutchinson challenged the Puritan theocracy of Boston), such equality has yet to be fully reached in America in fact (or in law) in 1977. The 1970s witnessed a growing agitation for “women’s rights” and, with the enactment of Title IX of the ...

In this paper we describe short mobile video story tests that have been done by using several authors/ users as story composers in the MoViE platform, which enables users to share, communicate and compose short mobile video stories in a networked community. The starting point of our study is the possibility to create an entertaining, dramaturgically intensive and coherent story from various sho...

Technology, especially multimedia technology, is changing the way we tell stories. We are all familiar with letters, articles, and books, but new Internet technology has led to two novel forms of storytelling that we call micro stories and mega stories. Micro stories are the short bits of text and images that we use to tell our friends about our daily life, what we had for lunch, and the funny ...