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Chapter and Conference Paper
Position: GDPR Compliance by Construction
New laws such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) grant users unprecedented control over personal data stored and processed by businesses. Compliance can require expensive manual...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation Methods of Hierarchical Models
In this paper, we consider the problem of evaluating the quality of hierarchical models. This task arises due to the current researchers use subjective evaluation, such as a survey to test the goodness of a hi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cuttle: Enabling Cross-Column Compression in Distributed Column Stores
We observe that, in real-world distributed data warehouse systems, data columns from different sources often exhibit redundancy. Even though these systems can employ both general and column-oriented compressio...
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Chapter
New Word Detection and Tagging on Chinese Twitter Stream
Twitter becomes one of the critical channels for disseminating up-to-date information. The volume of tweets can be huge. It is desirable to have an automatic system to analyze tweets. The obstacle is that Twit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Investigation into the Use of Document Scores for Optimisation over Rank-Biased Precision
When a Document Retrieval system receives a query, a Relevance model is used to provide a score to each document based on its relevance to the query. Relevance models have parameters that should be tuned to op...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Realizing Inclusive Digital Library Environments: Opportunities and Challenges
Universal design, also known as inclusive design, envisions the design of products and services to be accessible and usable to all irrespective of their disability status, cultural background, age, etc. Librar...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mining Source Code Topics Through Topic Model and Words Embedding
Developers nowadays can leverage existing systems to build their own applications. However, a lack of documentation hinders the process of software system reuse. We examine the problem of mining topics (i.e., ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Company Name Disambiguation in Tweets: A Two-Step Filtering Approach
Using Twitter as an effective marketing tool has become a gold mine for companies interested in their online reputation. A quite significant research challenge related to the above issue is to disambiguate twe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Discriminative Interpolation for Classification of Functional Data
The modus operandi for machine learning is to represent data as feature vectors and then proceed with training algorithms that seek to optimally partition the feature space
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Building Wordnet for the Tatar Language: A Semantic Model of the Verb System
Wordnet is a lexical database where nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are organized in a conceptual hierarchy linking semantically and lexically related concepts to each other. This paper reports on the pr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Boundedness of Weight Elimination for BP Neural Networks
Weight elimination can be usefully interpreted as an assumption about the prior distribution of the weights trained in the backpropagation neural networks (BPNN). Weight elimination based on different scaling ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Applying Evolutionary Computation Methods to Optimization of Vacation Cycle Costs in Finite-Buffer Queue
In this paper, problem of positioning and optimization of operation costs for finite-buffer queuing system with exponentially distributed server vacation is investigated. The problem is solved using evolutiona...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Errors of Our Ways: Using Metadata Quality Research to Understand Common Error Patterns in the Application of Name Headings
Using data culled during a metadata quality research project for the Social Network and Archival Context (SNAC) project, this article discusses common errors and problems in the use of standardized languages, ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Computationally and Cognitively Plausible Model of Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
Both empirical and mathematical demonstrations of the importance of chance-corrected measures are discussed, and a new model of learning is proposed based on empirical psychological results on association lear...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Process Mining in Healthcare: Data Challenges When Answering Frequently Posed Questions
In hospitals, huge amounts of data are recorded concerning the diagnosis and treatments of patients. Process mining can exploit such data and provide an accurate view on healthcare processes and show how they ...
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Genetic Cost Optimization of the GI/M/1/N Finite-Buffer Queue with a Single Vacation Policy
In the artice, problem of the cost optimization of the GI/M/1/N-type queue with finite buffer and a single vacation policy is analyzed. Basing on the explicit representation for the joint transform of the first b...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
K-Component Adaptive Recurrent Neural Network Language Models
Conventional n-gram language models for automatic speech recognition are insufficient in capturing long-distance dependencies and brittle with respect to changes in the input domain. We propose a k-component recu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Universal Intelligence, Creativity, and Trust in Emerging Global Expert Systems
This paper presents a hypothesis together with evidence related to the use of global knowledge as a holistic expert system. By global expert system (GES) we mean all knowledge sources, bases, repositories, and...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Constructing Physically Realistic VCV Stimuli for the Perception of Stop Voicing in European Portuguese
In this book chapter we present the generation of physically realistic stimuli with a biomechanical speech production model, with the aim to produce perceptually appropriate VCV sets for the European Portugues...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Usage of Mobile Phones for Personalized Healthcare Solutions
One of the greatest hurdles in providing the appropriate healthcare is the availability of proper information at the point of individual’s care. Mobile phone-based health solutions can bridge this gap and can ...