Three members of KMi attended the 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT) in Graz in Dec 2009. SAMT 2009 targetted narrowing the so-called semantic gap, that is, the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the high-level semantic meaning of the multimedia that…

The last in the series of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) was held in Corfu, Greece, last week. This meeting was particularly special as it marks the end to the participation of Carol Peters after ten years of enthusiastic work as main organiser. Carol opened the programme session with an exhaustive analysis of the considerable…

The 31st edition of the European Conference on Information Retrieval was held in Toulouse, France from the 7th to the 9th of April. This year confirmed ECIR as one of the major conferences in the IR field. The organisers were thrilled about the high number of participants coming not only from European countries but also…

A two day workshop on Annotating Image Archives To Support Literary Research was held on the 10th and 11th of October in Cardiff. It was organized by the School of Computer Science of Cardiff University. Its main goal was to bring together researches within literary studies (particularly those focusing on nineteenth-century literature and illustrations), and…