If a device is to be portable it must be small. However, the smaller a device is, the less physical room there is on it. This in turn limits the amount of space available for input and output mechanisms In this paper we present the results of a number of small studies which have investigated making the most of the input/output facilities of miniature devices. These cover: • data to guide the de...

Web link analysis has been proven to provide significant enhancement to the precision of web search in practice. The PageRank algorithm, used in the Google Search Engine, plays an important role in improving the quality of results by employing an explicit hyperlink structure among the Web pages. The prestige of Web pages defined by PageRank is derived solely from surfers’ random walk on the Web...

In this paper, the methods and results by the team KSU for STC-2 task at NTCIR-13 are described. We implemented both retrieval-based methods and a generation-based method. In the retrieval-based methods, a comment text with high similarity with the given utterance text is obtained from Yahoo! News comments data, and the reply text to the comment text is returned as the response to the input. Tw...

Fig. 1 provides an easy-to-understand design of ReViSE. In all of our experiments, GoogLeNet is pre-trained on ImageNet [2] images. Without fine-tuning, we directly extract the top layer activations (1024-dim) as our input image features followed by a common log(1+v) pre-processing step. For the textual attributes, we pre-process them through a standard l2 normalization. In ReViSE, we set α = 1...

The name txtUML stands for textual, executable, translatable UML. It is an Eclipse-based tool built on top of JDT, Xtext/Xbase and Papyrus UML. The tool is designed for textual model editing. This makes storage, version control, compare and merge processes, editing and searching easier and more efficient. The tool supports two textual syntaxes for modeling: the standalone syntax, which is desig...

Extracting information from text is the task of obtaining structured, machineprocessable facts from information that is mentioned in an unstructured manner. It thus allows systems to automatically aggregate information for further analysis, efficient retrieval, automatic validation, or appropriate visualization. Information Extraction systems require a model that describes how to identify relev...

This study aimed to explore the function and frequency of textual metadiscourse markers (MDMs) in scientific English and Persian texts. Based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of textual markers characterizing the selected genre, four different textbooks, two written in English and two in Persian were analyzed to identify the textual metadiscourse categories (including logical marker...

This study was inspired by VanPatten and Uludag’s (2011) study on the transferability of training via processing instruction to output tasks and Mori’s (2002) work on the development of talk-in-interaction during a group task. An interview was devised as the pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest to compare four intervention types for teaching the simple past passive: traditional intervention ...

Performance of the linear models, widely used within the framework of adaptive line enhancement (ALE), deteriorates dramatically in the presence of non-Gaussian noises. On the other hand, adaptive implementation of nonlinear models, e.g. the Volterra filters, suffers from the severe problems of large number of parameters and slow convergence. Nonetheless, kernel methods are emerging solutions t...

An important property of electromagnetic fields, which arises from the interaction between fields and chiral molecules, is called optical chirality. By enhancing this field property, while maintaining constant input power, we are able to increase absorption of circularly polarized light by chiral molecules of a certain handedness. This enhancement is achieved through the use of achiral plasmoni...