Abstract—Keyword Search is known as a user-friendly alternative for structured languages to retrieve information from graph-structured data. Efficient retrieving of relevant answers to a keyword query and effective ranking of these answers according to their relevance are two main challenges in the keyword search over graph-structured data. In this paper, a novel scoring function is proposed, w...

Language attitude research uncovers perceptions about the diversity of languages and dialects. It follows how such is stereotypically perceived, which influences usage dialects among people. Therefore, diverse contexts, as Saudi Arabia, necessitate attention to reveal stereotypes Saudis hold towards their might affect usage. Little has focused on broad language attitudes in none previous studie...

With the growing size of publicly available XML document collections, fast keyword search becomes increasingly important. We present an indexing and keyword search technique that is suitable for DAGcompressed data and has the advantage that common subtrees have to be searched only once. We also present a performance evaluation that shows that our DAGcompressed index and search technique is supe...

In this article, we propose an utterance verification technique for keyword spotting. The keyword spotting system analyzes a given spoken content and searches every speech segment in which one of pre-defined keywords is uttered. To maintain a stable recognition performance in the system, we propose an utterance verification technique that verifies whether a found utterance, or a candidate keywo...