PUBLICATIONGeocoding Multilingual Texts: Recognition, Disambiguation and Visualisation We are presenting a method to recognise geographical references in free text. Our tool must work on various languages with a minimum of language-dependant resources, except a gazetteer...
PUBLICATIONNavigating Multilingual News Collections Using Automatically Extracted Information We are presenting a text analysis tool set that allows analysts in various fields to sieve through large collections of multilingual news items quickly and to find...
PUBLICATIONUn Algorithme de Génération de Profil de Document Et Son Evaluation dans le Contexte de la Classification Thématique This paper describes an algorithm for document representation in a reduced vectorial space by a process of feature extraction. The algorithm is applied and evaluated in the context of the supervised classification of news articles from the collection...
PUBLICATION | 2006Estimation of Inter-annual Crop Area Variation by the Application of Spectral Angle Mapping to Low Resolution Multitemporal NDVI Images This current work is aimed at developing and testing a methodology which can be applied to low spatial resolution satellite data to assess inter-annual crop area variations...
PUBLICATION | 2005Real-time Agrometeorological Crop Yield Monitoring in Eastern Africa The Joint Research Centre (JRC), in collaboration with the Food Agriculture Organization (FAO), has developed for East Africa an operational crop yield monitoring and forecasting system (CYMFS)...
PUBLICATIONThe Selection of Electronic Text Documents Supported by Only Positive Examples The European Commission has a freely accessible news monitoring system called the Europe Media Monitor NewsBrief (http://press.jrc.it/), which is available for all twenty official languages...
PUBLICATIONBuilding and Displaying Name Relations using Automatic Unsupervised Analysis of Newspaper Articles We present a tool that, from automatically recognised names, tries to infer inter-person relations in order to present associated people on maps. Based on an in-house Named Entity...
PUBLICATION | 2008Creating Composite Indicators with DEA and Robustness Analysis: the Case of the Technology Achievement Index Composite indicators are regularly used for benchmarking countries performance, but equally often stir controversies about the unavoidable subjectivity that is connected with their construction. Data Envelopment...
PUBLICATION | 2005Analysis of the 13C Natural Abundance of CO2 Gas from Sparkling Drinks by Gas Chromatographe/Combustion/Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry See attached.
PUBLICATION | 2005Classification of Olive Oils Using High Throughput Flow 1H NMR Fingerprinting with Principal Component Analysis, Linear Discrimant Analysis and Probabilistic Neural Networks see attached.
