PUBLICATION | 2007Combining Information about Epidemic Threats from Multiple Sources This paper describes an on-going effort to combine Information Retrieval (IR) and Information Extraction (IE) technologies, to leverage the benefits provided by both approaches to add value for the end-user...
PUBLICATION | 2007Multilingual Multi-document Continuously-updated Social Networks We are presenting a fully-automatic live online system (ac-cessible at http://langtech.jrc.it/SocNet) that produces monolingual or mixed-language social network graphs showing which groups of persons are...
PUBLICATION | 2007Application of Support Vector Machines to 1H NMR Data of Fish Oils: Methodology for the Confirmation of Wild and Farmed Salmon and their Origins Support vector machines (SVMs) were used as a novel learning machine in the authentication of the origin of salmon. SVMs have the advantage of relying on a well developed theory and have...
PUBLICATION | 2008Authentication of Farmed and Wild Turbot (Psetta maxima) by Fatty Acid and Isotopic Analyses Combined with Chemometrics Fatty acid composition and stable isotope ratios of carbon (d13C) and nitrogen (d15N) were determined in muscle tissue of turbot (Psetta maxima). The multivariate analysis of the data...
PUBLICATION | 2008Geographical Origin Classification of Olive Oils by PTR-MS The volatile compositions of 192 olive oil samples from five different European countries were investigated by PTR-MS sample headspace analysis. The mass spectra of all samples...
PUBLICATION | 2007Control of Oenological Products: Discrimination between Different Botanical Sources of L-tartaric Acid by Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry Following previous studies on counterfeit of wines with synthetic ingredients, the possibility of frauds by natural external L-tartaric acid has also been investigated. The aim of this research was...
PUBLICATION | 20082007 Composite Learning Index: Robustness Issues and Critical Assessment Lifelong learning is crucial to a country¿s continued competitiveness, prosperity and social cohesion and yet no country has had a means of gauging the extent of lifelong learning within...
PUBLICATION | 2007Performance Evaluation of EA-IRMS Methods for the Determination of the D/H Ratio in Tetramethylurea and Other Compounds - Results of a Laboratory Inter-Comparison Tetramethylurea (TMU) with a certified D/H ratio is the internal standard for SNIF NMR(r) analysis of wine ethanol for detection of possible adulterations (Commission Regulation 2676/90). A new batch...
PUBLICATION | 2007Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition Named Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC) is a known and well-explored text analysis application that has been applied to various languages. We are presenting an automatic, highly...
PUBLICATION | 2007String Distance Metrics for Reference Matching and Search Query Correction String distance metrics have been widely used in various applications concerning processing of textual data. This paper reports on the exploration of their usability for tackling the reference...
