While drawing on the strength of the Xerox Corporation around the world, our focus is on Europe. We work with organisations drawn from the continent and reflect their needs and talents. We cooperate with the scientific community and collaborate with a wide range of European research organisations particularly within the European Community frameworks but also as part of national government initiatives.

Current Projects

EuropeanaConnect is a project that will channel digital content from Europe's archives, libraries, museums, and audiovisual collections into Europeana.eu. The technical implementation of EuropeanaConnect will enable the development of an operational Europeana service by April 2011.

CACAO (Cross language Access to Catalogues And Online libraries): A project that offers an innovative approach for accessing, understanding and navigating multilingual textual content in digital libraries and Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs). The CACAO cross language platform will enable librarians to query in their own languages an online catalogue that encompasses the catalogues of all project partners.

EERQI (European Educational Research Quality Indicators): The knowledge triangle - research, education and innovation - is a core factor in Europe’s efforts to meet the ambitious goal of becoming the "most dynamic competitive knowledge-based economy in the world". Educational research has been chosen as an example of research in socially and politically embedded fields within the humanities and social sciences. The goals of the EERQI project are to reinforce and enhance the worldwide visibility and competitiveness of European educational research.

SHAMAN (Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg): The SHAMAN Project is a Large Integrated Project co-financed by the European Union within the Seventh Framework Programme.
This project will develop and test a next generation digital preservation framework including tools for analysing, ingesting, managing, accessing and reusing information objects and data across libraries and archives.

SMART (Statistical Multilingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation): A project that aims at developing natural and easy to use interfaces that communicate intelligently via several modalities or with multilingual capabilities. The project brings together leading research institutions in Statistical Learning, Machine Translation and Textual Information Access and builds up new and more effective statistical approaches.

PASCAL2 (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning): PASCAL is developing the expertise and scientific results that will help create new technologies such as intelligent interfaces and adaptive cognitive systems. To achieve this, it supports and encourages collaboration between experts in Machine Learning, Statistics and Optimization. PASCAL enables Europe to capitalize on its strong research record in the area of principled adaptive systems design.

PINVIEW (Personal Information Navigator Through Viewing ): We develop new information retrieval principles needed for replacing or complementing explicit queries. The new techniques will be applied to construct prototypes of proactive information navigators, the next generation systems able to adapt to the user and her tacit information needs.

OMNIA The Omnia project aims at analyzing multimedia documents containing text and images, in a context of data profusion, as they are found on intranets and on Internet. The originality of the project is to work on 3 dimensions (image, text, emotion) and in a multilingual context. Images and texts give rise to 2 categorizations, relative to the informational aspects and to specific emotional aspects (coming directly from the images, or relative to their perception as expressed in the texts). These 2 types of content will be processed independently (annotation followed by indexation and categorization), with learning techniques, and will then be merged at the level of the filter and query tool. Their "primitives" will be linked to an interlingual representation of word senses based on English (UNL), that will open the way to multilingualism at the level of "publishing" the document categories, and of processing queries in natural languages equipped with UNL dictionaries.

Recent Past Projects

CONVIVIO (NoE): The Network for People-Centred Design of Interactive Systems.

LAVA: Learning for Adaptable Visual Assistants. May 2002 - April 2005

PASCAL (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and computational Learning): An FP6 Network of Excellence program which brings together research groups in Computational Learning, Statistics and Optimisation along with experts in application domains suitable to benefit from advances in those areas.

REVEAL THIS: Retrieval of Video and Language for The Home user in an Information Society; REVEAL THIS addresses a basic need underlying content organisation, filtering, consumption and enjoyment by developing content programming systems that will help European citizens keep up with the explosion of digital content scattered over different platforms (radio, TV, World Wide Web, etc), different media (speech, text, image, video) and different languages.

VIKEF: An advanced software framework for enabling the integrated development of semantic-based Information, Content, and Knowledge (ICK) management systems

TransType II: Computer Assisted Translation. March 2002 - February 2005

Thetis: Thetis focuses on the creation and localization of enhanced on-line pedagogical content for language learning in the tourism industry. December 2003 - December 2004

CONTACT: (Franco-Finnish PROACTIVE initiative): intelligent mobile systems and contextual services. February 2003 - Nov 2004

MILK: Multimedia Interaction for Learning & Knowing. January 2002 - July 2004

KerMIT: Kernel Methods for Images and Text. March 2001 - Feb 2004

MUCHMORE: Multilingual Concept Hierarchies for Medical Information Organisation and Retrieval. July 2000 - May 2003

PIE: Progress Instance Evolution. The investigation & demonstration of what "services" are needed to support human intensive processes that are typically long lived, distributed and always submitted to dynamic evolution to cope with real industrial and market pressure. February 1999 - July 2001

Campiello: enable people to interact and co-operate in building a new, richer sense of community based on exchange of knowledge sedimented over cultural resources. September 1997 - Aug 2000

COORDINA: Collaboration in assessing and improving the various models and languages, in order to advance the state-of-the-art. Also, put to the test the theoretical advances by studying test cases based on real applications. Aug 1997 - Aug 2000

EUROgatherer: Designing and implementing a system which provides a personalized information gathering service and is based on software agents. April 1998 - March 2000.

TMR: Training & Mobility of Researchers in Machine Learning.

TRINDI: Task-Oriented Instructional Dialogues between Man and Machine. Dialogues between humans and machines that enable the human to make choices in the performance of a certain task (task oriented instructional dialogues). Jan 1998 - Aug 2000