Current evaluation metrics for image description may be too coarse. We therefore propose a series of binary forced-choice tasks that each focus on a different aspect of the captions. We evaluate a number of different off-the-shelf image description systems. Our results indicate strengths and shortcomings of both generation and ranking based approaches.

This is to certify that I have examined this copy of a master's thesis by Salil G. Bapat and have found that it is complete and satisfactory in all respects, and that any and all revisions required by the final examining committee have been made. Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to thank several people who have contributed towards the successful completion of this thesis. ...

Information retrieval systems aim to retrieve precise and relevant information in response to a user's query. In past years entire documents which were considered to be relevant or highly correlating were returned to users. However with growth of the web and large numbers of XML documents, smaller elements or passages can be returned to the user for more precise results. This thesis explains Fl...

original article   health, safety and environment management has a vast area in which ergonomics aspects is known as one of the related aspects. in this case study the occupational hygiene by ergonomic intervention was focused. one of the prevalence activities among industrial sectors' worker in the developing countries is manual lifting tasks and other related physical activities which are imp...

This paper presents a measurement-based exploration of designing styles within the context of different design disciplines and tasks based on the design cognition of small design teams. Twelve final-year industrial design and twelve mechanical engineering design students were recruited to form teams of two. Each team undertook two conceptual product design tasks with different classes of requir...

Communicative language use largely entails regular patterns consisting of pre-constructed phrases or sequences. These sequences have been examined by many researchers to find the situation-based formulas which may help L2 learners follow a possibly more target-like speaking system. This study, therefore, explored two categories of formulaic expressions including speech formulas and situation-bo...

Language teachers usually face issues regarding the most effective methods of teaching. Teaching language to nonnative speakers of English involves certain problems and challenges at all levels of instruction. Due to the unsatisfactory results of focus on forms and focus on meaning instructions and their inevitable inadequacies, focus on form instruction along with its multiple techniques are r...