Traditional talent development pathways for adolescents in team sports follow talent identification procedures based on subjective games ratings and isolated athletic assessment. Most talent development models are exclusive rather than inclusive in nature. Subsequently, talent identification may result in discontentment, premature stratification, or dropout from team sports. Understanding the m...

The automatic summarisation of sports video is of growing importance with the increased availability of on-demand content. Consumers who are unable to view events live often have a desire to watch a summary which allows then to quickly come to terms with all that has happened during a sporting event. Sports forums show that it is not only summaries that are desirable but also the opportunity to...

A significant body of work focuses on detecting events in social media, much of which relies on restrictive assumptions like prior event-centric filtering or known language models. Rather than build these expensive pre-processing and filtering pipelines, we explore language-agnostic techniques using only temporal features like token frequency. We construct temporal features for tokens in an unf...

This communication presents a phonostylistic description of sport live media reports, contrasting three different sports, basketball, football (‘soccer’) and rugby. It is based on 12minute long recordings for each sport. The corpus is aligned at a phone level with EasyAlign, and manually annotated for the type of event in the game. It is analyzed with ProsoReport and ProsoDyn tools, a set of Pr...

Since the beginning of the nineties, professional sports firm values have been estimated by American newspapers. In 2004, Forbes proposed for the first time a list of the most valuable European soccer teams. In this article, we compare the determinants of firm values in MLB, the NBA, NFL, NHL, and European soccer over the period 20042011. The results show only one variable for which the sign an...

In recent years, there has been increasing work in the area of content retrieval for sports. The idea is generally to extract important events or create summaries to allow personalisation of the media stream. While previous work in sports analysis has employed either the audio or video stream to achieve some goal, there is little work that explores how much can be achieved by combining the two ...

INTRODUCTION: Nowadays, government officials seek ways to monitor, control, and manage events and crises due to the concerns of the general public and social media as informative tools. Regarding this, the present study aims to identify and analyze the factors affecting the crisis incidence in Iranian stadiums. METHODS: The present interpretive qualitative research was performed based on a gro...

While current research in speech synthesis focuses on the generation of various speaking styles or emotions, very few studies have addressed the possibility of including phonetic variations according to the communicative situation of the target speech (sports commentaries, TV news, etc.). However, significant phonetic variations have been observed, depending on various communicative factors (e....

There has been a huge increase in the utilization of video as one of the most preferred type of media due to its content richness for many significant applications including sports. To sustain an ongoing rapid growth of sports video, there is an emerging demand for a sophisticated content-based indexing system. Users recall video contents in a high-level abstraction while video is generally sto...