{"title":"Acquisition of a New Type of Lexical-Semantic Relation from German Corpora","authors":"L. Lemnitzer, Piklu Gupta, H. Wunsch","doi":"10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-214","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we will report on work in progress towards increasing the relational density of the German wordnet. It is also an experiment in corpus-based lexical acquisition. The source of the acquisition is a large corpus of German newspaper texts. The target is the German wordnet (GermaNet). We acquire a new type of lexical-semantic relation, i.e. the relation between the verbal head of a predicate and the nominal head of its argument. We investigate how the insertion of instances of this relation into the German wordnet GermaNet affects the neighbourhood of the nodes which are connected by an instance of the new relation. Special attention is given in this paper to the language-specific aspects of the acquisition process.","PeriodicalId":190102,"journal":{"name":"New Trends in Multimedia and Network Information Systems","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123916165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization of Top-k Spatial Preference Queries' Execution Process Based on Similarity of Preferences","authors":"M. Gorawski, K. Dowlaszewicz","doi":"10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-140","url":null,"abstract":"A detailed description of top-k spatial preference queries and the schema of their execution will be presented. Then, it discusses existing R-tree based top-k spatial preference queries' execution algorithms and the optimization methods they utilize. Moreover, the paper presents a new optimization technique and an algorithm capable of utilizing it together with other methods. Finally, an analysis of proposed method's efficiency is presented.","PeriodicalId":190102,"journal":{"name":"New Trends in Multimedia and Network Information Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124451104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Piskorski, Hristo Tanev, M. Atkinson, E. V. D. Goot
{"title":"Cluster-Centric Approach to News Event Extraction","authors":"J. Piskorski, Hristo Tanev, M. Atkinson, E. V. D. Goot","doi":"10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-276","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a real-time and multilingual news event extraction system developed at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. It is capable of accurately and efficiently extracting violent and natural disaster events from online news. In particular, a linguistically relatively lightweight approach is deployed, in which clustered news are heavily exploited at all stages of processing. The paper focuses on the system's architecture, real-time news clustering, geolocating clusters, event extraction grammar development, adapting the system to the processing of new languages, cluster-level information fusion, visual event tracking and accuracy evaluation.","PeriodicalId":190102,"journal":{"name":"New Trends in Multimedia and Network Information Systems","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126869593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling Agent Behaviours in Simulating Transport Corridors Using Prometheus and Jason","authors":"Karol Kaim, Mateusz Lenar","doi":"10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-182","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the approach to create the multi-agent system (MAS) for simulating transport corridors. There are few new ideas that were used during the developing the system. JASON language used in implementation of this system is a relatively new approach. A commitment based communication was described before in few papers but there is a little about its implementation. The social aspects of agents are emphasizes in this paper. Although the system is not fully implemented, the combination of Prometheus methodology and JASON language seems to be the good choice for developing the multi-agent systems.","PeriodicalId":190102,"journal":{"name":"New Trends in Multimedia and Network Information Systems","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123500366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Localizing and Extracting Caption in News Video Using Multi-Frame Average","authors":"Jinlin Guo, Songyang Lao, Haitao Liu, Jiang Bu","doi":"10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-46","url":null,"abstract":"News video is a very important video source. Caption in a news video can help us to understand the semantics of video content directly. A caption localization and extraction approach for news video will be proposed. This approach applies a new Multi-Frame Average (MFA) method to reduce the complexity of the background of the image. A time-based average pixel value search is employed and a Canny edge detection is performed to get the edge map. Then, a horizontal scan and a vertical scan on this edge map are used to obtain the top, bottom, left and right boundaries of the rectangles of candidate captions. Then, some rules are applied to confirm the caption. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can reduce the background complexity in most cases, and achieves a high precision and recall. Finally, we analyze the relationship between background variation of frame sequence and detection performance in detail.","PeriodicalId":190102,"journal":{"name":"New Trends in Multimedia and Network Information Systems","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124734853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SMiLE - Session Mobility in mobiLe Environments","authors":"Günther Hölbling, Wolfgang Pfnür, H. Kosch","doi":"10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-53","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays most people own several devices, like a notebook or a smartphone, for satisfying their mobility and flexibility needs. Without special arrangements a program, its execution state and saved files-the latter two are commonly called “session”-are confined to a physical host. Session Mobility enables the user to break this law of locality, and instead creates a relation between the session and himself. In this paper we present a novel system for supporting session mobility in various scenarios. To support an almost automatic session handover between different devices a mobile agent system has been used. The selection of target devices has also been automated based on the usage context, the device's capabilities and a rough estimation of the actual location. Based on the Session Mobility in mobiLe Environments platform (SMiLE) a use case has been realized where a video session is migrated from a notebook to a smartphone and vice versa.","PeriodicalId":190102,"journal":{"name":"New Trends in Multimedia and Network Information Systems","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124735623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classification Visualization across Mapping on a Sphere","authors":"Veslava Osinska, P. Bała","doi":"10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-95","url":null,"abstract":"Existing classification schemes are visualized as hierarchical trees. Science data visualization requires a new method in information space modelling in order to reveal relations between class nodes. This paper describes a novel visualization concept of classification scheme using subject content metrics. We have mapped the document collection of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) digital library to a sphere surface. To overcome the incorrectness of linear measures in indexes distances we calculated similarity matrix of themes and multidimensional scaling coordinates. The results show that space distances between class nodes accurately correspond with the thematic proximities. Documents mapped into a sphere surface were located according to the classification nodes and distributed uniformly. Proposed method to visualize classification scheme is proper to reach nonlinearity in subject content visualization. This property allows us to place close by more classification nodes. Symmetry of a sphere favours a new subclasses and sublevels of classification trees uniform visualization. This method may be useful in the visual analysis of Computer Science and Engineering domain development being grown instantly.","PeriodicalId":190102,"journal":{"name":"New Trends in Multimedia and Network Information Systems","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133828124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pre-processing Techniques for the QSAR Problem","authors":"L. Dumitriu, M. Craciun, A. Cocu, C. Segal","doi":"10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-107","url":null,"abstract":"Predictive Toxicology (PT) attempts to describe the relationships between the chemical structure of chemical compounds and biological and toxicological processes. The most important issue related to real-world PT problems is the huge number of the chemical descriptors. A secondary issue is the quality of the data since irrelevant, redundant, noisy, and unreliable data have a negative impact on the prediction results. The pre-processing step of Data Mining deals with complexity reduction as well as data quality improvement through feature selection, data cleaning, and noise reduction. In this paper, we present some of the issues that can be taken into account for preparing data before the actual knowledge discovery is performed.","PeriodicalId":190102,"journal":{"name":"New Trends in Multimedia and Network Information Systems","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128538658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technical Metadata and Standards for Digitisation of Cultural Heritage in Poland","authors":"G. Ploszajski","doi":"10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-155","url":null,"abstract":"The digitisation of national heritage is supported in Poland by the government who want to establish standards and recommendations that could be used by all types of cultural institutions and organizations involved in digitisation process, including museums, libraries and archives. This paper describes an approach to establishing standards concerning technical aspects of digitisation, first of all technical and structural metadata and a set of rules, parameters and formats. The presented solutions are based on an unpublished report prepared by a working team.","PeriodicalId":190102,"journal":{"name":"New Trends in Multimedia and Network Information Systems","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133916217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effectiveness of Video Segmentation Techniques for Different Categories of Videos","authors":"K. Choros, M. Gonet","doi":"10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-904-2-34","url":null,"abstract":"Visual retrieval systems as well as Internet search engines demand efficient techniques of indexing to facilitate fast access to the required video or to the required video sequences in the video databases. Digital video databases are more and more frequently implemented not only in the Internet network but also in local networks and even in local personal computers. Different approaches to digital video indexing are applied: textual approach, extraction and representation of technical or structural features, content-based analysis, and finally segmentation. The segmentation process leads to the partition of a given video into a set of meaningful and individually manageable segments, which then can serve as basic units for indexing. Video has temporal properties such as camera motion, object movements on the scene, sequential composition, and interframe relationships. An effective segmentation technique is able to detect not only abrupt changes but also gradual scene changes, such as fade and dissolve transitions. The nature of movies, mainly the style of video editing has an influence on the effectiveness of temporal segmentation methods. The effectiveness of four methods was analyzed for five different categories of movie: TV talk-show, documentary movie, animal video, action & adventure, and pop music video. The cuts have been recognized as well as cross dissolve effects. The tests have shown that the specific nature of videos has an important influence on the effectiveness of temporal segmentation methods.","PeriodicalId":190102,"journal":{"name":"New Trends in Multimedia and Network Information Systems","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134400314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}