This paper reports the work carried out on modelling diagnostic problem solving, based on empirical studies, in three example domains i.e. medical problem solving, physics problem solving and road accident analysis. Results which emerge from examining this modelling activity, for a similar task across different domains, relate to contextual features, re-usability of reasoning processes and mode...

In this paper we aim to improve interoperability and re-usability of the morphological dictionaries of Apertium machine translation system by formulating a generic finite-state compilation formula that is implemented in HFST finite-state system to compile Apertium dictionaries into general purpose finite-state automata. We demonstrate the use of the resulting automaton in FST-based spell-checki...

The paper presents a blackboard infrastructure for the development of object-based image interpretation applications. The infrastructure is based on an abstract deenition of important concepts in image interpretation: data objects, relationships, algorithms, strategies, and models. Building applications with the environment is eeectuated by specializing the abstract concepts. Using abstract con...

One problem of the (re-)usability and exchange of annotated corpora is in the lack of standards in corpus formats and corpus query tools. This paper reports on the NXT Search tool, which was used to query two corpora with very different annotation formats. It is shown that with automatic data format conversion both corpora can be accessed and searched with NXT Search.

We describe our efforts to design an interface that supports media studies researchers in collecting data. Based on interviews about their search behavior we arrive at a set of search scenarios and for each we identify IR techniques that provide the required functionality. We end with a discussion about the implementation of such an interface and its re-usability across the humanities.