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Search engine applications like Google and Yahoo present their results in the form of onedimensional linear list that usually comprise three times of the screen size per page and several number of pages. The results are displayed in the list of inconsistent declining ranks without displaying its rank values. The one-dimensional linear list display of the results data will cause classification o...

among factors that might manipulate translators’ mind while producing a text is the notion of ideology transmission through text or talk. adopting critical discourse analysis (cda) with particular emphasis on the framework of van dijk (1999), the present investigation is an attempt to shed light on the relationship between language and ideology involved in translation in general, and more speci...

IDtension is an Interactive Drama project initiated 10 years ago (Szilas, 1999). It aims at providing long term solutions to the problem of combining narrativity and interactivity. IDtension has been demoed in 2002 (COSIGN) and 2006 (IUI, TIDSE). Our motivation to demo IDtension again is twofold: 1) IDtension has never been demoed in North America; 2) The newest version has been improved and ai...

As machine translation (MT) tools have become mainstream, machine translated text has increasingly appeared on multilingual websites. Trustworthy multilingual websites are used as training corpora for statistical machine translation tools; large amounts of MT text in training data may make such products less effective. We performed three experiments to determine whether a support vector machine...

Drama managers guide a user through a story experience by modifying the experience in reaction to the user’s actions. Search-based drama management (SBDM) casts the dramamanagement problem as a search problem: Given a set of plot points, a set of actions the drama manager can take, and an evaluation of story quality, search can be used to optimize the user’s experience. SBDM was first investiga...

Offline Chinese handwriting text recognition is a long-standing research topic in the field of pattern recognition. In previous studies, detection and are separated, which leads to fact that highly dependent on results. this paper, we propose robust end-to-end page spotter framework. It unifies with kernel integrates global feature information optimize from multiple scales, reduces dependence i...