Most words are associated with multiple senses. A DVD can be round (when describing a disc), and a DVD can be an hour long (when describing a movie), and in each case DVD means something different. The possible senses of a word are often predictable, and also constrained, as words cannot take just any meaning: for example, although a movie can be an hour long, it cannot sensibly be described as...

Multilingualism and multiculturalism are verbally visually recurrent in the sitcom Family Guy (1999-in production) through a combination of main language communication (L1) other languages (L3) source (SL) or text (ST). The use L3 is tantamount to tokenism stereotyping characters, especially those whose recurrence incidental part jokes. This paper compares two versions episode “Road Rhode Islan...

We describe a MPEG-7 Meta-Data enhanced Audio-Visual Encoder system that targets DVD recorders. We extract features in the compressed domain with both video and audio, which allows us to add the meta-data extraction without altering the hardware architecture of the encoder core. Our feature extraction algorithms are simple, and thus implementable through a simple combination of software and har...