Gesture is a non-verbal modality that can contribute crucial information to the understanding of natural language. But not all gestures are informative, and non-communicative hand...
In this paper, we present a general architecture and a new retrieval method for an educational system that is based on a knowledge base of existing recorded lectures. The extracti...
Tools for mining information from data can create added value for the Internet. As the majority of electronic documents available over the network are in unstructured textual form...
Our research explores the possibilities for factoring culture into user models, working towards cultural adaptivity in the semantic web. The aim is to represent the user’s positi...
It is important yet hard to identify navigational queries in Web search due to a lack of sufficient information in Web queries, which are typically very short. In this paper we st...