We propose a model for semantic annotation of events, such as weddings or basketball games, as depicted in video. Our framework consists of an event taxonomy, implemented as a faceted classification, and an event partonomy, implemented using the ABC ontology proposed by Lagoze and Hunter [1]. We have expressed a proof-of-concept version of both the taxonomy and the partonomy in the Resource Des...

The Southern African region consists of ten countries including, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Frequent drought episodes in the arid semi-arid parts suggest impact climate change need for a sustainable framework groundwater level assessments. In this study, we developed machine learning modelling based on deep belief netwo...

Consumers evaluate and choose cloud-based services based on the Service Level Agreements (SLA). These agreements list service terms metrics to be agreed upon by providers customers. Current cloud SLAs are text documents that require significant manual effort parse determine if meet SLAs. Moreover, due lack of standardization, differ in way they define metrics, making it more difficult compare d...

Review generation, aiming to automatically generate review text according the given information, is proposed assist in unappealing writing. However, most of existing methods only consider overall sentiments reviews and cannot achieve aspect-level sentiment control. Even though some previous studies attempt sentiment-controllable reviews, they usually require large-scale human annotations which ...