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The Linked Movie Database (LinkedMDB) project provides a demonstration of the first open linked dataset connecting several major existing (and highly popular) movie web resources. The database exposed by LinkedMDB contains millions of RDF triples with hundreds of thousands of RDF links to existing web data sources that are part of the growing Linking Open Data cloud, as well as to popular movie...

audiovisual material accompanied by interlingual subtitles is a powerful pedagogical tool which can help improve the vocabulary learning of second-language learners. this study was intended to determine whether or not the mode (standard and reversed) of subtitling affects the incidental vocabulary acquisition of iranian l2 learners while watching tv programs. forty-five participants were random...

Movie exhibitors currently face two forces vying for the limited footprint of their properties. Recent advances have enabled exhibitors to satisfy consumers’ long-standing desire for increasingly larger screens. On the other hand, digital technology has reduced the cost of playing the same movie on multiple screens, thereby creating an incentive for screen proliferation to increase the number o...

The purpose of this study was to find out if 3D stereoscopic presentation of information in a movie format changes a viewer's experience of the movie content. Four possible pathways from 3D presentation to memory and learning were considered: a direct connection based on cognitive neuroscience research; a connection through "immersion" in that 3D presentations could provide additional sensorial...

In this paper, we address the problem of scheduling communication over the interconnection network of a distributed-memory multicomputer video server. We show that this problem is closely related to the problem of data distribution and movie scheduling in such a system. A solution is proposed in this paper that addresses these three issues at once. The movies are distributed evenly over all nod...

Recommendation systems have become prevalent in recent years as they dealing with the information overload problem by suggesting users the most relevant products from a massive amount of data. For media product, online collaborative movie recommendations make attempts to assist users to access their preferred movies by capturing precisely similar neighbors among users or movies from their histo...

Processing keyword-based queries is a central problem in Information Retrieval (IR), where several studies have been done to develop effective keyword-based search techniques [1, 2]. A standard containment keyword-based query, which retrieves textual identities that contain a set of keywords, is generally supported by a full-text index. The inverted index is considered as one of the most useful...

Accurately predicting customer preferences is a highly sought after goal, for it allows businesses to market a product to individuals in a way that is most likely to generate a sale. This can be particularly important in the movie industry, where individual preferences can vary greatly. Recognizing this, the online movie rental business Netflix has sponsored a contest to find better ways of mak...