Article history: Received 30 October 2013 Received in revised form 2 March 2014 Accepted 6 March 2014 Available online 13 April 2014 The active incorporation of business data has become a vital process in the recent business environment. Despite the potential utility of massive database, technology roadmap, a wellknown strategic planning method, still remains a subjective and qualitative method...

Moderation in virtual communities should not be a private privilege. This paper proposes a method for participants in a social network to decide their own rules for accepting (or not) contents. With the norm argument map, participants are able to argue about norms and voice their opinions about other people?s arguments. This structure, equipped with a method to fuse all the data introduced by p...

Semantic similarity has become an important tool and widely been used to solve traditional Information Retrieval problems. This study adopts ontology of computer science and proposes an ontology indexing weight based on Wu and Palmer’s edge counting measure and uses the N-grams method for computing a family of word similarity. The study also compares the subsumption weight between Hliaoutakis a...

This paper studies searching and pruning process of the telephone speech recognition system for Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX) to explore the possible problems encountered in applying speech recognition to telephone network and to prepare the necessary techniques for the practical telephone speech recognition systems. Experiment on a baseline system which uses semi-syllable based mult...

Abstract Autoethnography—a methodology that foregrounds personal experience both during research and in writing about it—is a useful keyword for scholars working Africa the diaspora. Mara Thompson argue by exploring new forms of engaging critical self-reflexivity regarding (shifting) positionalities, autoethnography—particularly collaborative approaches—is vital to ongoing efforts decolonize Af...

The problem of polysemy in keyword-based image search arises mainly from the inherent ambiguity in user queries. We propose a latent model based approach that resolves user search ambiguity by allowing sense specific diversity in search results. Given a query keyword and the images retrieved by issuing the query to an image search engine, we first learn a latent visual sense model of these poly...

Moderation in virtual communities should not be a private privilege. This paper proposes a method for participants in a social network to decide their own rules for accepting (or not) contents. With the norm argument map, participants are able to argue about norms and voice their opinions about other people?s arguments. This structure, equipped with a method to fuse all the data introduced by p...

Keywords play a vital role in extracting the correct information as per user requirements. Keywords are like index terms that contain the most important information about the content of the document. Keyword Extraction is the task of identifying a keyword or keyphrase from a document that can help users easily to understand the documents. Meeting transcripts is significantly different from docu...