Tremendous amount of images are used on modern Web pages, but images are rarely used in everyday communication via e-mail, SMS, SNS, etc., although many communication systems allow the use of images in the message. We believe that images can greatly enhance the quality of communication if they are appropriately used with alphabetical texts, and we created a text input system with which users ca...

Neural network language models (NNLMs) have been shown to outperform traditional ngram language model. However, too high computational cost of NNLMs becomes the main obstacle of directly integrating it into pinyin IME that normally requires a real-time response. In this paper, an efficient solution is proposed by converting NNLMs into back-off n-gram language models, and we integrate the conver...

In this paper we introduce iMe (Interactive Musical Environments), an interactive intelligent music system based on distributed software agents that is capable of learning to generate music autonomously and in realtime. iMe belongs to a new paradigm of interactive musical systems that we call “ontomemetical musical systems” for which we propose a series of prerequisites.

Purpose This study aims to theoretically explore and examine the possibility of developing an Islamic social welfare function (ISWF) within moral economy (IME) frame by going beyond traditional fiqhī approach. It focuses on issues preference ordering utility through normative dimension ontology, as expressed articulated IME. Design/methodology/approach Being a theoretical paper, conceptual crit...

Input Method Editor (IME) has been widely installed on mobile devices to help user type non-Latin characters and reduce the number of key presses. To improve the user experience, popular IMEs integrate personalized features like reordering suggestion list of words based on user’s input history, which inevitably turn them into the vaults of user’s secret. In this paper, we make the first attempt...

OBJECTIVES Intervention Modeling Experiments (IMEs) are a way of developing and testing behavior change interventions before a trial. We aimed to test this methodology in a Web-based IME that replicated the trial component of an earlier, paper-based IME. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Three-arm, Web-based randomized evaluation of two interventions (persuasive communication and action plan) and a "n...

The indirect medical education (IME) and disproportionate share hospital (DSH) adjustments to Medicare's prospective payment rates for inpatient services are generally intended to compensate hospitals for patient care costs related to teaching activities and care of low income populations. These adjustments were originally established based on the statistical relationships between IME and DSH a...