The topic of this conference is Visual languages, but I want to discuss computer programming using a technique where there is no apparent language at all; the language is (mostly) invisible. Here, the user sees the results of the program aecution and the data the program is operating on, but the program itself is not shown. The program is specifcd by demonstrating the operations that should be ...

This document briefly describes the system submitted by the Speech Processing Lab of Instituto de Telecomunicações, pole of Coimbra (SPL-IT) to the Query by Example Search on Speech Task (QUESST) of MediaEval 2014. Our approach is based on merging results of a phoneme recognition system using three different languages. A version of Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) using posteriorgram distances was cr...

In recent years there has been rising interest in the use of programming-by-example techniques to assist users in data manipulation tasks. Such techniques rely on an explicit inputoutput examples specification from the user to automatically synthesize programs. However, in a wide range of data extraction tasks it is easy for a human observer to predict the desired extraction by just observing t...

Audio Word2Vec offers vector representations of fixed dimensionality for variable-length audio segments using Sequenceto-sequence Autoencoder (SA). These vector representations are shown to describe the sequential phonetic structures of the audio segments to a good degree, with real world applications such as query-by-example Spoken Term Detection (STD). This paper examines the capability of la...

Researchers from the University of Alabama and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill collaborated on this study for TRECVID-08. This study focused on the search task of TRECVID-08, and the experiments included two full search runs, one interactive and one manual. Both search runs, M_C_2_ViewFinderALNC_2 and I_C_1_ViewFinderALNC_1, had similar designs. Each was conducted using the View...

Image retrieval models typically represent images as bags-of-terms, a representation that is wellsuited to matching images based on the presence or absence of terms. For some information needs, such as searching for images of people performing actions, it may be useful to retain data about how parts of an image relate to each other. If the underlying representation of an image can distinguish b...

In this paper, we describe the “Query by Example Search on Speech Task” (QUESST, formerly SWS, “Spoken Web Search”), held as part of the MediaEval 2014 evaluation campaign. As in previous years, the proposed task requires performing language-independent audio search in a low resource scenario. This year, the task has been designed to get as close as possible to a practical use case scenario, in...

WebDev is a programming in the WYSIWYG interface tool for building dynamic web pages that connect to databases. The system allows designers to “program” by entering query by example (QBE) and spreadsheet formulas into visual components of HTML documents. The system then automatically generates dynamic web pages that can be executed in a browser. INTRODUCTION WYSIWYG HTML editors such as Microso...

Having the computer imitate recorded human actions is the basis for an experimental technology for programming, variously called "Programming by Example" or "Programming by Demonstration". This is an under-appreciated technology that holds the promise of revolutionizing programming and making it more accessible, especially to non-expert programmers. Because imitation is a natural learning strat...

In this paper, we propose a concept for using combined multimodal queries in the context of digital music libraries. Whereas usual mechanisms for content-based music retrieval only consider a single query mode, such as query-by-humming, full-text lyrics-search or query-by-example using short audio snippets, our proposed concept allows to combine those different modalities into one integrated qu...