Tuesday 27 September 2011
Frédérique Segond keynote speaker at Virtual Goods + ODRL 2011
September 28th -30th, 2011, Barcelona, Spain
Frédérique Segond, manager XRCE Parsing and Semantics research group, will give a talk: "Extraction of semantics from online sources to drive new virtual business models"
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Monday 26 September 2011
Seminar:Transportation Center @ EPFL: Overview of research activities and projects
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 at 11:00 am
Michaël Thémans, deputy director of the Transportation Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland will present his work.
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Monday 19 September 2011
Conference: DocEng 2011. ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. 19 - 22 September. Google HQ, Mountainview, CA.
Jean-Yves Vion-Dury is Session Chair on Metadata on Thursday and presenting 'A Generic Calculus of XML Editing Deltas' on Wednesday. Boris will present 'Local Metric Learning for Tag Recommendation in Social Networks' (See below for links to papers)
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| Conference. 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Beijing 18-21st, Sept.
Paper 'User And Device Localization Using Probabilistic Device Log Trilateration'. Guillaume Bouchard, Luis R. Ulloa, Jean-Marc Andreoli, Victor Ciriza, Onno Zoeter.
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| Lecture: Handwritten word spotting. J. Rodriguez, ICDAR 2011, Beijing.
Jose Rodriguez, researcher in the Textual and Visual Pattern Analysis group is giving a tutorial on handwritten word spotting at this week's 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
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Thursday 15 September 2011
Seminar: "Design opportunities and challenges in Indian urban slums - Community Communication and Mobile Phones"
Thursday, September 15th, 11am
Abhigyan Singh, design researcher, Delft Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab, The Hague Area, Netherlands, will discuss existing practices of mobile phone's use, 'Human Nodes' of community communication, design challenges, and a design concept called as 'Asynchronous Voice Community Communication Service' for residents of Indian urban slums.
abstract
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Thursday 08 September 2011
Seminar: The Smarter Crowd: Bayesian Knowledge Corroboration. Thore Graepel, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. 3pm Thursday September 8th.
How user feedback can greatly improve the quality of automatically extracted knowledge bases. Abstract
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Tuesday 30 August 2011
Seminar: How Hard is Competition for Rank?, Prof. Paul Goldberg, University of Liverpool, U.k. Thursday, Sept. 1st , 11am.
Abstract
Information on speaker, Prof. Goldberg.
How to get to XRCE.
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Monday 29 August 2011
Java class, Adrian Mos at Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin. Mon 29 - Wed 1st September.
Adrian from the Document Structure research group is giving a course in Java to students in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at UCL. The course runs for 3 days this week and next week.
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| Grenoble Innovation Fair - 20-21 October 2011, Grenoble
For its third edition, Grenoble Innovation Fair is broadening its scope to cover more new or emerging innovations in Europe, welcoming 150 start-ups and laboratories in an exhibition space dedicated to networking with industry and technology demonstrations.
Irene Maxwell, XRCE communications manager, is on the jury for an award in the "measurement and standards" category.
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