A wavelet coding method for image data on arbitrarily shaped support applicable to the object-oriented coding of moving pictures, and to the efficient representation of texture data in computer graphics is proposed. Wavelet transform of arbitrarily shaped image is obtained by applying symmetrical extension technique at region boundaries and keeping the location of wavelet coefficient. For the e...

A central but still unsettled question in formal theories about discourse interpretation is: What are the key theoretical structures on which discourse interpretation should depend? If we take our cue from theories that analyze the meanings of individual sentences, the meaning of the discourse's parts should determine the meaning of the whole; some sort principle of compositionality of meaning ...

A question answering system that provides access to a large amount of data wi l l be most useful if it can tailor its answer to each user. In particular, a user's level of knowledge about the domain of discourse is an important factor in this tailoring. In previous work we determined that a user's level of domain knowledge affects the kind of information provided in an answer to a user's questi...

Open-answer questions are resistant to guesswork; they stimulate students’ thinking. However, the number of correct answers rises quickly with answer length both in natural and formal languages. One template can define many variants answers. The article presents a question plugin Preg for popular Moodle LMS, which uses Perl-compatible regular expressions as templates hint next character lexeme....

Despite the general findings that address the positive contribution of teaching pragmatic features to interlanguage pragmatic development, the question as to the most effective method is far from being resolved. Moreover, the potential of literature as a means of introducing learners into the social practices and norms of the target culture, which underlie the pragmatic competence, has not been...

In today’s medicine, Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems (CAD) are very used to improve the screening test accuracy of pulmonary nodules. Processing, classification, and detection techniques form basis CAD architecture. this work, we focus on classification step in a system where use Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) along with Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) perform an efficient method for Combi...