This paper describes our system for auto search and interactive search in the known-item search (KIS) task in TRECVID 2010. KIS task aims to find an unique video answer for each text query. The shift from traditional video search has prompted a series of challenges in processing and searching techniques that developed over the past few years. For the automatic search task, our VisionGo system p...

This study attempts to investigate the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic development of Iranian EFL learners cross-sectionally when making requests in different situations. To this end, 103 university students in three proficiency levels of pre-intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced were asked to write three discourse completion tests (DCTs) of requests in different situations...

the ability of smartphone technology to document static microscopy images has been well documented and is gaining widespread use in ophthalmology, where slit-lamp biomicroscopy is frequently utilized. however, little has been described regarding the use of smartphone technology to relay video of tissue microscopy results to patients, particularly when a tissue sample integrates motility of orga...

the prevalence of asthma remains difficult to determine with precision with no absolute or gold standard for diagnosis. international study of asthma and allergies in childhood (isaac) developed video questionnaire for epidemiological studies with less reliance on understanding written asthma questionnaire. the aim of this research was to determine the agreement between the isaac written and vi...

this study sought to investigate the impact of teaching speech acts and role relations through authentic audio-taped and video-taped materials on the level of iranian efl learners’ pragmatic competence. to this end, 55 intermediate learners were ed and randomly assigned to two experimental groups: the audio-taped group and the video-taped group. during the treatment, the audio-taped group recei...