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Multilingual Entity Linking (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)
by Chen-Tse Tsai Shyam Upadhyay Dan RothThis book focuses on Entity Discovery and Linking (EDL), which is the problem of identifying concepts and entities, disambiguating them, and grounding them to one or more knowledge bases (KBs). The authors first provide background on the topic and emphasize why it is a crucial step toward understanding natural language text. As most of the content on the internet is not in English, the book also discusses cross-lingual EDL. The authors present the challenges associated with EDL problems and explain the existing solutions. The book covers the core challenges that apply to all EDL problems, as well as the additional challenges associated with cross-lingual EDL problems. The authors also survey relevant research papers, highlight recent trends, and identify areas for future research.
Multilingual Information Retrieval
by Carol Peters Martin Braschler Paul CloughWe are living in a multilingual world and the diversity in languages which are used to interact with information access systems has generated a wide variety of challenges to be addressed by computer and information scientists. The growing amount of non-English information accessible globally and the increased worldwide exposure of enterprises also necessitates the adaptation of Information Retrieval (IR) methods to new, multilingual settings. Peters, Braschler and Clough present a comprehensive description of the technologies involved in designing and developing systems for Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR). They provide readers with broad coverage of the various issues involved in creating systems to make accessible digitally stored materials regardless of the language(s) they are written in. Details on Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) are also covered that help readers to understand how to develop retrieval systems that cross language boundaries. Their work is divided into six chapters and accompanies the reader step-by-step through the various stages involved in building, using and evaluating MLIR systems. The book concludes with some examples of recent applications that utilise MLIR technologies. Some of the techniques described have recently started to appear in commercial search systems, while others have the potential to be part of future incarnations. The book is intended for graduate students, scholars, and practitioners with a basic understanding of classical text retrieval methods. It offers guidelines and information on all aspects that need to be taken into consideration when building MLIR systems, while avoiding too many 'hands-on details' that could rapidly become obsolete. Thus it bridges the gap between the material covered by most of the classical IR textbooks and the novel requirements related to the acquisition and dissemination of information in whatever language it is stored.
Multilingual Phone Recognition in Indian Languages (SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology)
by K.E ManjunathThe book presents current research and developments in multilingual speech recognition. The author presents a Multilingual Phone Recognition System (Multi-PRS), developed using a common multilingual phone-set derived from the International Phonetic Alphabets (IPA) based transcription of six Indian languages - Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Odia, Urdu, and Assamese. The author shows how the performance of Multi-PRS can be improved using tandem features. The book compares Monolingual Phone Recognition Systems (Mono-PRS) versus Multi-PRS and baseline versus tandem system. Methods are proposed to predict Articulatory Features (AFs) from spectral features using Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Multitask learning is explored to improve the prediction accuracy of AFs. Then, the AFs are explored to improve the performance of Multi-PRS using lattice rescoring method of combination and tandem method of combination. The author goes on to develop and evaluate the Language Identification followed by Monolingual phone recognition (LID-Mono) and common multilingual phone-set based multilingual phone recognition systems.
Multiliteracies for a Digital Age
by Stuart A. SelberThis is a guide for composition teachers to develop effective, full-scale computer literacy programs that are also professionally responsible by emphasizing different kinds of literacies and proposing methods for helping students move among them in strategic ways.
Multimedia and Image Management
by Susan Lake Karen BeanMultimedia and Image Management prepares students for a business world in which they will be expected to use business-standard software applications and to complete projects and solve problems. The applications include word processing, presentation, digital photography, image manipulation, animation, and speech recognition. This text teaches students the more creative end of business technology.
Multimedia and Image Management: Activities
by Susan E. L. Lake Karen BeanMost of the applications discussed within this book are available for both the Windows and Macintosh operating systems, and the activities described can be worked easily on either system.
Multimedia and Literacy Development: Improving Achievement for Young Learners
by Susan B. Neuman Adriana G. BusRepresenting the state of the art in multimedia applications and their promise for enhancing early literacy development, this volume broadens the field of reading research by looking beyond print-only experiences to young readers’ encounters with multimedia stories on the Internet and DVD. Multimedia storybooks include, in addition to static pictures and written text, features such as oral text, animations, sounds, zooms, and scaffolds designed to help convey meaning. These features are changing how young children read text, and also provide technology-based scaffolds for helping struggling readers. Multimedia and Literacy Development reports experimental research and practices with multimedia stories indicating that new dimensions of media contribute to young children’s ability to understand stories and to read texts independently. This is the first synthesis of evidence-based research in this field. Four key themes are highlighted: Understanding the multimedia environment for learning Designing multimedia applications for learning New approaches to storybook reading Multimedia applications in classroom instruction. Written in jargon-free language for an international audience of students in university courses on literacy and information technology, researchers, policymakers, program developers, and media specialists, this volume is essential reading for all professionals interested in early literacy and early interventions.
Multimedia and Megachange: New Roles for Educational Computing
by W Michael Reed John K BurtonThe use of multimedia strikes at the very heart of traditional teaching and learning methods, and is changing the way educators think about the whole process of teaching and learning. Multimedia and Megachange spurs ideas for the use of interactive technology to revolutionize teaching and learning. It describes and analyzes issues and trends that are currently setting a research and development agenda for educators.Contributors to this volume explore all fronts on which computer technology are changing the educational process:concept and theoryresearchapplicationdesignMultimedia and Megachange opens up the exciting world of how technology is dramatically changing how teachers teach and students learn. It also highlights spin-off changes for classroom management, greater sources of information, and improved evaluation and grading techniques.
Multimedia and Network Information Systems: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference MISSI 2018 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #833)
by Kazimierz Choroś Marek Kopel Elżbieta Kukla Andrzej SiemińskiThese proceedings collect papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Multimedia & Network Information Systems (MISSI 2018), held from 12 to 14 September 2018 in Wrocław, Poland. The keynote lectures, given by four outstanding scientists, are also included here. The Conference attracted a great number of scientists from across Europe and beyond, and hosted the 6th International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding as well as four special sessions. The majority of the papers describe various artificial intelligence (AI) methods applied to multimedia and natural language (NL) processing; they address hot topics such as virtual and augmented reality, identity recognition, video summarization, intelligent audio processing, accessing multilingual information and opinions, video games, and innovations in Web technologies. Accordingly, the proceedings provide a cutting-edge update on work being pursued in the rapidly evolving field of Multimedia and Internet Information Systems.
Multimedia and Network Information Systems
by Aleksander Zgrzywa Kazimierz Choroś Andrzej SiemińskiDiscusses a broad scope of subject matters including multimedia systems in their widest sense, web systems and network technologies. This monograph also includes texts which deals with traditional information systems that draw on the experience of the multimedia and network systems.
Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering
by Borgy Waluyo Hwa Young Jeong James J. Park Joseph Kee-Yin NgThe new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, education, and governmental domains. Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering provides an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of multimedia and ubiquitous environment including models and systems, new directions, novel applications associated with the utilization and acceptance of ubiquitous computing devices and systems.
Multimedia and Virtual Reality: Designing Multisensory User Interfaces
by Alistair SutcliffeThis book is primarily a summary of research done over 10 years in multimedia and virtual reality, which fits within a wider interest of exploiting psychological theory to improve the process of designing interactive systems. The subject matter lies firmly within the field of HCI, with some cross-referencing to software engineering. Extending Sutcliffe's views on the design process to more complex interfaces that have evolved in recent years, this book: *introduces the background to multisensory user interfaces and surveys the design issues and previous HCI research in these areas; *explains the basic psychology for design of multisensory user interfaces, including the Interactive Cognitive Subsystems cognitive model; *describes elaborations of Norman's models of action for multimedia and VR, relates these models to the ICS cognitive model, and explains how the models can be applied to predict the design features necessary for successful interaction; *provides a design process from requirements, user and domain analysis, to design of representation in media or virtual worlds and facilities for user interaction therein; *covers usability evaluation for multisensory interfaces by extending existing well-known HCI approaches of heuristic evaluation and observational usability testing; and *presents two special application areas for multisensory interfaces: educational applications and virtual prototyping for design refinement. To download images and figures free of charge that enhance and clarify materials discussed in chapters 1-7 go to http://www.co.umist.ac.uk/centreULhci/MMVRbook.htm
Multimedia Basics
by Suzanne Weixel Jennifer Fulton Karl Barksdale Cheryl Morse Bryan MorseAn excellent foundation for any multimedia or website design curriculum, this textbook provides comprehensive coverage of many multimedia topics including graphics, animation, video, presentations, desktop publishing, and web pages.
Multimedia Big Data Computing for IoT Applications: Concepts, Paradigms and Solutions (Intelligent Systems Reference Library #163)
by Sudeep Tanwar Sudhanshu Tyagi Neeraj KumarThis book considers all aspects of managing the complexity of Multimedia Big Data Computing (MMBD) for IoT applications and develops a comprehensive taxonomy. It also discusses a process model that addresses a number of research challenges associated with MMBD, such as scalability, accessibility, reliability, heterogeneity, and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, presenting case studies to demonstrate its application. Further, the book examines the layered architecture of MMBD computing and compares the life cycle of both big data and MMBD. Written by leading experts, it also includes numerous solved examples, technical descriptions, scenarios, procedures, and algorithms.
Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems
by Mohsen Amini Salehi Xiangbo LiThe second generation of cloud computing systems, known as domain-specific clouds, are emerging based on application-specific processors and serverless computing paradigm. As multimedia streaming services are increasingly growing in popularity and diversity, this book is authored to introduce “multimedia clouds” as a domain-specific cloud that operates in the intersection of cloud computing technologies and digital media streaming. The book concentrates on the architectural aspects of multimedia clouds and describes development of high-level abstractions that will mitigate the burden of programmers, cloud architects, and system administrators. Multimedia clouds not only democratize multimedia streaming and add flexibility to the streaming services, they also help stream providers to offer robust and reliable streaming services in a cost- and energy-efficient manner.
Multimedia, Communication and Computing Application: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Multimedia, Communication and Computing Application (MCCA 2014), Xiamen, China, October 16-17, 2014
by Ally Leung2014 International Conference on Multimedia, Communication and Computing Application (MCCA2014), Xiamen, China, Oct 16-17, 2014, provided a forum for experts and scholars of excellence from all over the world to present their latest work in the area of multimedia, communication and computing applications. In recent years, the multimedia techno
Multimedia Communications and Networking
by Mario Marques da SilvaThe result of decades of research and international project experience, Multimedia Communications and Networking provides authoritative insight into recent developments in multimedia, digital communications, and networking services and technologies. Supplying you with the required foundation in these areas, it illustrates the means that will allow
Multimedia Communications, Services and Security
by Remigiusz Baran Mikołaj Leszczuk Andrzej DziechThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and Security, MCSS 2015, held in Krakow, Poland, in November 2015. The 16 full papers included in the volume were selected from 39 submissions. The papers cover ongoing research activities in the following topics: multimedia services; intelligent monitoring; audio-visual systems; biometric applications; experiments and deployments.
Multimedia Communications, Services and Security
by Andrzej Dziech Andrzej CzyżewskiThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and Security, MCSS 2011, held in Krakow, Poland, in June 2011. The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Topics addresses are such as audio-visual systems, service oriented architectures, multimedia in networks, multimedia content, quality management, multimedia services, watermarking, network measurement and performance evaluation, reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services, searching, multimedia surveillance and compound security, semantics of multimedia data and metadata information systems, authentication of multimedia content, interactive multimedia applications, observation systems, cybercrime-threats and counteracting, law aspects, cryptography and data protection, quantum cryptography, object tracking, video processing through cloud computing, multi-core parallel processing of audio and video, intelligent searching of multimedia content, biometric applications, and transcoding of video.
Multimedia Communications, Services and Security: 10th International Conference, MCSS 2020, Kraków, Poland, October 8-9, 2020, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1284)
by Andrzej Dziech Wim Mees Andrzej CzyżewskiThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and Security, MCSS 2020, held in Kraków, Poland, in October 2020. The 24 full papers and 2 short papers included in the volume were selected from 54 submissions. The papers cover ongoing research activities in the following topics: multimedia services; intelligent monitoring; audio-visual systems; biometric applications; experiments and deployments.
Multimedia Communications, Services and Security: 11th International Conference, MCSS 2022, Kraków, Poland, November 3–4, 2022, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1689)
by Andrzej Dziech Wim Mees Marcin NiemiecThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference, MCSS 2022, held in Kraków, Poland, during November 3–4, 2022. The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers cover ongoing research activities in the following topics: cybersecurity, multimedia services; intelligent monitoring; audio-visual systems; biometric applications; experiments and deployments.
Multimedia Computing
by Gerald Friedland Ramesh JainThe word 'multimedia' is often associated with specific applications from entertainment to web design to video to music. This innovative textbook presents emerging techniques in multimedia computing from an experiential perspective in which each medium - audio, images, text, and so on - is a strong component of the complete, integrated exchange of information or experience. Humans are the best functioning example of multimedia communication and computing – that is, we understand information and experiences through the unified perspective offered by our five senses. The goal of this book is to present current techniques in computing and communication that will lead to the development of a unified and holistic approach to computing using heterogeneous data sources. The authors introduce the fundamentals of multimedia computing, describing the properties of perceptually encoded information, presenting common algorithms and concepts for handling it, and outlining the typical requirements for emerging applications that use multifarious information sources. Designed for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, the book will also serve as an introduction for engineers and researchers interested in understanding the elements of multimedia and their role in building specific applications.
Multimedia Computing Systems and Virtual Reality (Innovations in Multimedia, Virtual Reality and Augmentation)
by Rajeev TiwariMost events and activities in today's world are ordinarily captured using photos, videos and other multimedia content. Such content has some limitation of storing data and fetching them effectively. Three-dimensional continuous PC animation is the most proper media to simulate these occasions and activities. This book focuses on futuristic trends and innovations in multimedia systems using big data, IoT and cloud technologies. The authors present recent advancements in multimedia systems as they relate to various application areas such as healthcare services and agriculture-related industries. The authors also discuss human-machine interface design, graphics modelling, rendering/animation, image/graphics techniques/systems and visualization. They then go on to explore multimedia content adaptation for interoperable delivery. Finally, the book covers cultural heritage, philosophical/ethical/societal/international issues, standards-related virtual technology and multimedia uses. This book is intended for computer engineers and computer scientists developing applications for multimedia and virtual reality and professionals working in object design and visualization, transformation, modelling and animation of the real world. Features: Focuses on futuristic trends and innovations in multimedia systems using big data, IoT and cloud technologies Offers opportunity for state-of-the-art approaches, methodologies and systems, and innovative use of multimedia-based emerging technology services in different application areas Discusses human-machine interface design, graphics modelling, rendering/animation, image/graphics techniques/systems and visualization Covers cultural heritage, philosophical/ethical/societal/international issues, standards-related virtual technology and multimedia uses Explores multimedia content adaptation for interoperable delivery and recent advancements in multimedia systems in context to various application areas such as healthcare services and agriculture-related fields Rajeev Tiwari is a Senior Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. Neelam Duhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at J. C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, India. Mamta Mittal has 18 years of teaching experience, and her research areas include data mining, big data, machine learning, soft computing and data structure. Abhineet Anand is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Chitkara University, Punjab, India. Muhammad Attique Khan is a lecturer of the Computer Science Department at HITEC University, Taxila, Pakistan.
Multimedia Content Encryption: Techniques and Applications
by Shiguo LianThe widespread use of image, audio, and video data makes media content protection increasingly necessary and urgent. For maximum safety, it is no longer sufficient to merely control access rights. In order to fully protect multimedia data from piracy or unauthorized use, it must be secured through encryption prior to its transmission or distributio
Multimedia Data Mining: A Systematic Introduction to Concepts and Theory (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)
by Zhongfei Zhang Ruofei ZhangCollecting the latest developments in the field, Multimedia Data Mining: A Systematic Introduction to Concepts and Theory defines multimedia data mining, its theory, and its applications. Two of the most active researchers in multimedia data mining explore how this young area has rapidly developed in recent years.The book first discusses the theore