The paper describes a system which uses a fact repository (FR) consisting of instances of ontological concepts to answer sequences of questions. The fact repository is populated automatically by analyzing texts to produce complex text meaning structures. These are then mapped to fact repository instances and stored in a relational database. The documents used by the system are news articles in ...

Classifier fusion may generate more accurate classification than each of the basic classifiers. Fusion is often based on fixed combination rules like the product, average etc. This paper presents decision templates as classifier fusion method for the recognition of the handwritten English and Farsi numerals (1-9). The process involves extracting a feature vector on well-known image databases. T...

FARSI HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION USING CONTINUOUS HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES

This paper describes the University of Edinburgh’s spoken language translation (SLT) and machine translation (MT) systems for the IWSLT 2014 evaluation campaign. In the SLT track, we participated in the German↔English and English→French tasks. In the MT track, we participated in the German↔English, English→French, Arabic↔English, Farsi→English, Hebrew→English, Spanish↔English, and Portuguese-Br...

The paper describes our portable two-way speech-tospeech translation system using a completely eyesfree/hands-free user interface. This system translates between the language pair English and Iraqi Arabic as well as between English and Farsi, and was built within the framework of the DARPA TransTac program. The Farsi language support was developed within a 90-day period, testing our ability to ...

tions that, up until that time, had only received an episodic focus. One drawback of the book is that the authors cover a wide gamut of topics. Consequently, disease-specifi c topics are presented without adequately providing the necessary background on the disease entity to the reader. Not all readers may fully understand the necessary disease-specifi c background that would make the discussio...

Identification of visual words and writings has long been one of the most essential and the most attractive operations in the field of image processing which has been studied since the last few decades and includes security, traffic control, fields of psychology, medicine, and engineering, etc. Previous techniques in the field of identification of visual writings are very similar to each other ...

International media was quick to dub the Iranian Green Movement a “Twitter revolution” when it erupted in summer of 2009. State violence against protestors captured real time and broadcast worldwide on social media, providing an early example regime's helplessness at locking down narrative face ubiquitous smart phones. Over decade later, nearly all foreign remain officially blocked Iran, yet Ir...