RÉSUMÉ Cette recherche porte sur le chiasme de mots : figure de style jouant sur la réversion (ex. « Bonnet blanc, blanc bonnet »). Elle place le chiasme dans la problématique de sa reconnaissance automatique : qu’est-ce qui le définit et comment un ordinateur peut le trouver ? Nous apportons une description formelle du phénomène. Puis nous procédons à la constitution d’une liste d’exemples con...

As flood events tend to happen more frequently, there is a growing demand for understanding the vulnerability of infrastructure to flood-related hazards. Such demand exists both for flood management personnel and the general public. Modern software tools are capable of generating uncertainty-aware flood predictions. However, the information addressing individual objects is incomplete, scattered...

Because of the increasing availability of multi-core machines, clusters, Grids, and combinations of these there is now plenty of computational power, but today’s programmers are not fully prepared to exploit parallelism. In particular, Java has helped in handling the heterogeneity of such environments. However, there is a lot of ground to cover regarding facilities to easily and elegantly paral...

Automatic code generation is a standard method in software engineering, improving the code reliability as well as reducing the overall development time. In hardware engineering, automatic code generation is utilized within a number of development tools, the integrated code generation functionality, however, is not exposed to developers wishing to implement their own generators. In this paper, V...

Grammarware comprises grammars and all grammar-dependent software, i.e., software artifacts that directly involve grammar knowledge. The term grammar is meant here in the widest sense to include XML schemas, syntax definitions, interface descriptions, APIs, and interaction protocols. The most obvious examples of grammar-dependent software are document processors, parsers, import/export function...

Frequently of use in optimization problems, automatic diierentiation may be used to generate Taylor coeecients. Specialized software tools generate Taylor series approximations, one term at a time, more eeciently than the general AD software used to compute (partial) derivatives. Through the use of operator overloading, these tools provide a relatively easy-to-use interface that minimizes the c...

We present a tool that allows human wizards to select appropriate response utterances for a given dialogue context from a set of utterances observed in a dialogue corpus. Such a tool can be used in Wizard-of-Oz studies and for collecting data which can be used for training and/or evaluating automatic dialogue models. We also propose to incorporate such automatic dialogue models back into the to...

RÉSUMÉ. Dans le processus d'adaptation de contenu d'un système de type Universal Multimedia Access, la possibilité de changer la modalité d’une ressource est un avantage important. Dans cet article nous présentons un outil de description de « transmodage » à la volée, dans le cadre de la norme MPEG-21. Nous montrons ensuite l'efficacité et la nécessité de cet outil de description par quelques e...

The lack of a versatile software tool for parallel program development has been one of the major obstacles for exploiting the potential of high-performance architectures. In this paper, we describe an experimental software tool called CASCH (Computer Aided SCHeduling) for parallelizing and scheduling applications to parallel processors. CASCH transforms a sequential program to a parallel progra...

An automatic approach to tool condition monitoring is presented, with the best solution achieving overall accuracy of 94.33% and 9 misclassification errors. In wood industry, cutting tools need be evaluated periodically. This especially case when drills are concerned; since dulled, resulting poor-quality product may generate loss for manufacturing company, due discard it during quality control....