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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) Experiments
The Dublin City University participation in the CLEF 2006 CL-SR task concentrated on exploring the combination of the multiple fields associated with the documents. This was based on use of the extended BM25F ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Semantic Paraphrasing for Information Retrieval and Extraction
The paper is devoted to the development of a system of synonymous and quasi-synonymous paraphrasing and its practical applications, first of all in the domain of search engine optimization and information extr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Emotion Recognition from Speech by Combining Databases and Fusion of Classifiers
We explore possibilities for enhancing the generality, portability and robustness of emotion recognition systems by combining data-bases and by fusion of classifiers. In a first experiment, we investigate the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Lip Reading in the Dutch Language Using Active Appearance Models on High Speed Recordings
This paper presents our work on lip reading in the Dutch language. The results are based on a new data corpus recorded at 100Hz in our group. The NDUTAVSC corpus is to date the largest corpus build for lip rea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Use of a Fuzzy Object-Relational Database for Retrieval of X-rays on the Basis of Spine Curvature Pattern Similarities
In medical practice radiologists use X-rays to diagnose and treat scoliosis, which is a medical condition that affects the spine. Doctors usually compare patients’ X-rays to other images with known diagnosis s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Adaptive Information Retrieval System for Efficient Web Searching
Stemming algorithms (stemmers) are used to convert the words to their root form (stem), this process is used in the pre-processing stage of the Information Retrieval Systems. The Stemmers affect the indexing t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Concept Recommendation System for Cloud Services Advertisement
Cloud computing is a major trend in Information Technology (IT), which has witnessed high adaption rate for cloud solutions. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers compete to address nearly every business and ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Queries Based Workload Management System for the Cloud Environment
Workload management for concurrent queries is one of the challenging aspects of executing queries over the cloud computing environment. The core problem is to manage any unpredictable load imbalance with respe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mixed Membership Sparse Gaussian Conditional Random Fields
Building statistical models to explain the association between responses (output) and predictors (input) is critical in many real applications. In reality, responses may not be independent. A promising directi...