A cheap soundbite

Spotlight- S8: A cheap and sincere reagent

Javad Afsar was born in 1988 in Hamedan, Iran. He obtained his B.Sc. (2011) and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (2013) from Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. Currently, he is working towards his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Ali Zolfigol and Prof. Ardashir Khazaei at the same university. His research involves design, Synthesis and applications of new catalyst in organic synthesis.

Spotlight- S8: A cheap and sincere reagent

Javad Afsar was born in 1988 in Hamedan, Iran. He obtained his B.Sc. (2011) and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (2013) from Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. Currently, he is working towards his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Ali Zolfigol and Prof. Ardashir Khazaei at the same university. His research involves design, Synthesis and applications of new catalyst in organic synthesis.

Soundbite detection in broadcast news domain

In this paper, we present results of a study designed to identify SOUNDBITES in Broadcast News. We describe a Conditional Random Field-based model for the detection of these included speech segments uttered by individuals who are interviewed or who are the subject of a news story. Our goal is to identify direct quotations in spoken corpora which can be directly attributable to particular indivi...

A Cheap Flush-Out Latrine

Cheap Bandits

We consider stochastic sequential learning problems where the learner can observe the average reward of several actions. Such a setting is interesting in many applications involving monitoring and surveillance, where the set of the actions to observe represent some (geographical) area. The importance of this setting is that in these applications, it is actually cheaper to observe average reward...