Sentence boundary detection (SBD) system is normally quite sensitive to genres of data that the system is trained on. The genres of data are often referred to the shifts of text topics and new languages domains. Although new detection models can be retrained for different languages or new text genres, previous model has to be thrown away and the creation process has to be restarted from scratch...

There is a problem of applying of combining rules to evidence which were got from different information sources in framework of Dempster-Shafer theory. In this work the conflict measure and index of decreasing of ignorance in frame of Dempster-Shafer theory are introduced for characterization of quality of applied combining rules. Those functionals are analyzed on the bodies of evidences of spe...

In this paper, we present a novel approach for Hindi Named Entity Identification (NEI) in a large corpus. The key idea is to harness the global distributional characteristics of the words in the corpus. We show that combining the global distributional characteristics along with the local context information improves the NEI performance over statistical baseline systems that employ only local co...

Cümbüş çalgısı, Geleneksel Türk müziği içerisinde, kullanılan bir eşlik çalgısıdır. Anadolu coğrafyası üzerindeki Güneydoğu bölgesinde, Trakya yöresinde sıklıkla ve hemen her yörede kendine yer bulmuş çalgıdır. Günümüzde, popüler müzik kültüründe yapılan albüm çalışmalarında da oldukça sık çalgı haline gelmiştir. çalgısını farklı ülkelerdeki yorumcularının icracılarının kullanmaya başladığı gör...

New music genres emerge constantly resulting from the influence of existing genres and other factors. In this paper we propose a data-driven approach which is able to cluster and classify music samples according to their type/category. The clustering method uses no previous knowledge on the genre of the individual samples or on the number of genres present in the dataset. This way, music taggin...

In this paper, we propose a novel method for performing high-level narrative structure extraction of films. Our objective is to utilize the knowledge of film production for analyzing and extracting the structure of films. This is achieved by combining visual and aural cues on the basis of cinematic principles. An aesthetic model is developed to integrate visual and aural cues (aesthetic fields)...

contrastive rhetorical analysis as a way of understanding different ways through which writers from various cultural backgrounds shape their discourse was officially initiated by the works of kaplan (1966). this study tries to use the methodology to investigate the news reports in two american and iranian widely published newspapers. using the analytical methodologies of contrastive rhetoric an...