In this talk, I will describe the development of a Malay-English bidirectional speech translation system in the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, as part of the Asian Speech Translation Advanced Research Consortium. I will introduce the basic components and the linguistic resources, in particular, large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, speech synthesis, and machine translatio...

The accuracy of different GPS devices for precise sampling of trees needed for early yield forecast was studied in two years campaign. The precise positioning is fundamental for the comparison of yields between different years. In our experiment we used GPS devices MarchII, ASUS P565 and Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which represented different precision and price ranges. To determine the positions a...

Opinion question answering systems (OQAS) search for answers from public opinions available on social web. WHYquestions asked in OQAS expect answers to incorporate reasons and explanations for the questioners’ sentiments expressed in the questions. Sentiment analysis has been recently used for determining sentiment polarity of WHY-questions so as to find the intention of users with which he is ...

The present study implements a generic methodology for describing and analyzing demand supply networks, that is, networks from a company’s suppliers to its customers. There can be many possible demand supply networks with different logistics costs for a product. Therefore, we introduce a Petri Net-based formalism, and a reachability analysis based algorithm that finds the optimum demand supply ...

Continuous sensing applications (e.g., mobile social networking applications) are appearing on new sensor-enabled mobile phones such as the Apple iPhone, Nokia and Android phones. These applications present significant challenges to the phone’s operations given the phone’s limited computational and energy resources and the need for applications to share real-time continuous sensed data with bac...

Stanimir Andonov* The article discusses the differentiation among the product offers of companies working in the global markets, as well as the strategies which they use and could use in that respect. The main idea of the paper is that the principle “differentiate or die” (Jack Trout) has died. Today the global brands don’t strive to differ from their competitors in everything and at any cost. ...