<jats:p>The Odonata, dragonflies and damselflies, constitute one of the more charismatic and better-studied orders of insects. The approximately 6,000 extant species on Earth can be variously found on all continents, except Antarctica. A relatively stable taxonomy, a re...

Recognizing texts in video is more complex than in other environments such as scanned documents. Video texts appear in various colors, unknown fonts and sizes, often affected by compression artifacts and low quality. In contrast to Latin texts, there are no publicly ava...

Este artículo pasa revista a la presencia de ṣāliḥāt en cuatro documentos hagiográficos del Magreb medieval, así como a la manera de calificarlas. Intenta una reflexión sobre las formas de la experiencia religiosa y las modalidades de presencia de estas santas en la vid...

Abstract: Studying Arabic nominal sentences is important to analyze and annotate successfully Arabic corpora. This type of sentences is frequent in Arabic text and speech. Transducers can be used to realize local grammars and treat several linguistic phenomena. In this ...

International audience; Although Modern Standard Arabic is taught in schools and used in written communication and TV/radio broadcasts, all informal communication is typically carried out in dialectal Arabic. In this work, we focus on the design of speech tools and reso...

International audience; In this paper, we propose a method to disambiguate the output of a morphological analyzer of the Tunisian dialect. We test three machine-learning techniques that classify the morphological analysis of each word token into two classes: true and fa...

Abstract Almost all languages lack sufficient resources and tools for developing Human Language Technologies (HLT). These technologies are mostly developed for languages for which large resources and tools are available. In this paper, we deal with the under-resourced l...

Abstract Over the last few decades, with the meteoric rise of Information Technology, Question Answering (QA) has attracted more attention and has been extremely explored. Indeed, several QA systems are based on a passage retrieval engine which aims to deliver a set of ...

Excerpt of MeSH taxonomy modeling the Information Contents (ICs) of the biomedical concepts "Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte" (C1) and "Receptors, Interleukin-7" (C2). The IC is quantified using the ancestors' subgraph and the topological parameters (depth and d...

International audience; Microblogging sites, like Twitter, have emerged as a popular platform for expressing opinions. Bound to 140 characters, Twitter's publications (tweets) are very short and not always written maintaining formal grammar and proper spelling. The spel...