talking about ego, in the sufis’ works, two terms of “endeavor” and “austerity” have been sometimes used focused on each other and sometimes alone. did they have similar definitions and positions in sufis’ opinion or had they been different from each other? we claim that “endeavor” and “austerity” had had different positions and of course different definitions in old texts.  it was made clear, ...

Presently my main research interest is the development and application of machine learning and statistical techniques toward natural language processing. The representation of words using vector space models is widely used for a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The two main word embedding categories are cluster based and dense representations. Brown Clustering and other hiera...

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. ...

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a powerful technology for the vital tasks of information retrieval (IR) and knowledge discovery (KD) which, in turn, feed the visualization systems of the present and future and enable knowledge workers to focus more of their time on the vital tasks of analysis and prediction. First, a definition of NLP. Natural language processing is a set of computational ...

To become a proficient reader, children have to learn mappings between print, sound and meaning. There is debate over whether reading instruction should focus on the relations between print and sound, as in phonics, or on the relationship between print and meaning, as in sight word reading. In a study where participants learned a novel artificial orthography, Taylor, Davis and Rastle (2017) com...

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...