A speech translation system will transform a spoken dialogue from the speaker's language to the listener’s automatically and simultaneously. It will undoubtedly be used to overcome language barriers and facilitate communication among the peoples of the world. Creation of such a system will first require developing the various constituent technologies: speech recognition, machine translation, an...

Object oriented analysis offers effective tools to represent the knowledge in a scene. Knowledge-based interpretation arises as an effective way to interpret remote sensing imagery. In this approach, human’s expertise is organized in a knowledge base to be used as input of automated interpretation processes, thus enhancing performance and accuracy, and reducing at the same time the subjectivity...

This review concenrs the area of automatic interpretation of peoples actions as imaged by a video camera. Specifically the review concentrates on the detection and classification of group behaviour.

The large amount of data produced by automatic web accessibility evaluation has to be preprocessed in order to enable disabled users or policy makers to draw meaningful conclusions from the assessment. We study different methods for interpretation and aggregation of the results provided by automatic assessment tools. Current approaches do not meet all the requirements suggested in the literatur...

This paper introduces an automatic debugging framework that relies on model–based reasoning techniques to locate faults in programs. In particular, model–based diagnosis, together with an abstract interpretation based conflict detection mechanism is used to derive diagnoses, which correspond to possible faults in programs. Design information and partial specifications are applied to guide a mod...

We provide a dynamic systems interpretation of the coupling of internal states involved in speed-dependent automatic zooming, and test our implementation on a text browser on a Pocket PC instrumented with an accelerometer. The dynamic systems approach to the design of such continuous interaction interfaces allows the incorporation of analytical tools and constructive techniques from manual and ...

Tonal target detection is a very difficult task, especially in presence of consonantal perturbations. Though different detection methods have been adopted in tonal alignment research, we still do not know which is the most reliable. In our paper, we found that such methodological choices have serious theoretical implications. Interpretation of the data strongly depends on whether tonal targets ...

This poster discusses domain ontologies on the privacy field for automatic risk identification and project qualification. It presents an ontology model for describing risks as an interpretation of privacy policies contextualized in project specifications.

A survey of research on spoken language understanding is presented. It covers aspects of knowledge representation, automatic interpretation strategies, semantic grammars, conceptual language models, semantic event detection, shallow semantic parsing, semantic classification, semantic confidence, active learning

In this paper we propose an automatic method of generating Symbolic Objects in the following framework: description of a partition by symbolic objects that takes into account two aspects, that may be called homogeneity and discrimination criteria. This method belongs to a family of algorithms named MGS (Marking and Generalization by Symbolic Objects) in [GETSUM98], which may be applied either t...