Word processors or computers used in Japan employ Japanese input method through keyboard stroke combined with Kana (phonetic) character to Kanji (ideographic, Chinese) character conversion technology. The key factor of Kana-to-Kanji conversion technology is how to raise the accuracy of the conversion through the homophone processing, since we have so many homophonic Kanjis. In this paper, we re...

Man is a limited-distribution application and the place it occupies in the activities of the Commission's Translation Service (and other departments) is less clear-cut than is the case for other tools. Indeed, if we were starting from scratch, it is probable that we would not choose to invent an application incorporating such a miscellany of functions and steps are now being taken to remedy thi...

In this paper, we illustrate a preliminary approach to the translation of Web data between heterogeneous formats. This work fits into a larger project whose aim is the development of a tool for the management of data described according to a large variety of formats used on the Web and the (semi)automatic translation of schemes and instances from one model to another. Data translations operate ...

The proliferation of geographic information systems and digital data bases is creating a need for efficient meth ods to convert data from one spatial data structure to another. One approach is to create ad hoc interfaces, with a potential of N(N-1) interfaces for N data struc tures. Using an intermediate data structure, at most 2N interfaces are required. An intermediate relational data structu...

The paper presents a flexible method to enrich and populate an existing OWL ontology from XML data based on graph-based rules. These rules are defined in order to populate automatically a new version of an OWL ontology. Today, most of data exchanged between information systems is done with the help of the XML document. Leading researches in the domain of database systems are moving to semantic ...

Process/thread migration and checkpointing schemes support load balancing, load sharing and fault tolerance to improve application performance and system resource usage on workstation clusters. To enable these schemes to work in heterogeneous environments, we have developed an application-level migration and checkpointing package, MigThread, to abstract computation states at the language level ...

Incomparability of information is the key problem in international comparisons. The usual way to improve comparability is to harmonise data collection efforts. However, harmonisation fails if the data have already been sampled, or if appropriate harmonisation cannot be achieved for whatever reason. This normally leaves no other option than to either make strong unwarranted assumptions about the...

Following the ever-improving performance of data converters, the accuracy of the clock that is sampling the data converter, needs to improve at the same pace. The clock accuracy is especially a problem for high-resolution, wide bandwidth converters. The aim of this project is to provide for a next-generation high-performance clock as a library block for the Process & Library Technology (PLT) gr...