With the dramatic increase of the live webcast scripts about sports, it is an urgent demand to write and publish a sports news article immediately after a sports game. However, so far, the sports news articles are usually written by human experts or journalists, and the manual writing of sports news is timeconsuming and inefficient. This paper describes our system on the sports news generation ...

This paper reports the result of an online survey that has been conducted to observe students’ attitude toward webcast lecture. The research model was based on Technology Acceptance Model, in which attitude is a function of perceived ease of use as well as perceived usefulness. It was hypothesized that perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness affect positively with the overall user satisf...

Webcasts can adopt techniques developed by television to obtain higher quality. Television production techniques, however, cannot be integrated into webcast production without considering the fundamental di erences in the underlying infrastructure. We have developed a general webcast production model composed of three stages (i.e., sources, broadcast, and transmission) to address these di erenc...

1. As a followup to the direct testimony I provided earlier in this proceeding, I have been asked to expand on my prior testimony in three respects as well as to respond to certain issues raised during the course of the CARP proceeding. 2. In particular, I will discuss factors affecting the future trends of webcast quality, users’ options for obtaining permanent digital music files via methods ...

BACKGROUND Flow disruption with the WEB is an innovative endovascular approach for treatment of wide-neck bifurcation aneurysms. Initial studies have shown a low complication rate with good efficacy. PURPOSE To report clinical and anatomical results of the WEB treatment in the cumulative population of three Good Clinical Practice (GCP) studies: WEBCAST (WEB Clinical Assessment of Intrasaccula...

Webcasts are an emerging technology enabled by the expanding availability and capacity of the World Wide Web. This has led to an increase in the number of lectures and academic presentations being broadcast over the Internet. Ideally, repositories of such webcasts would be used in the same manner as libraries: users could search for, retrieve, or browse through textual information. However, one...

Live webcast scripts are valuable resources for describing the process of sports games. This shared task aims to automatically generate sports news articles from live webcast scripts. The task can be considered a special case of single document summarization. In this overview paper, we will introduce the task, the evaluation dataset, the participating teams and the evaluation results. The datas...

The increased availability of broadband connections has recently led to an increase in the use of Internet broadcasting (webcasting). Most webcasts are archived and accessed numerous times retrospectively. One of the hurdles users face when browsing and skimming through archives is the lack of text transcripts of the audio channel of the webcast archive. In this paper, we proposed a procedure f...

A growing number of lecture webcasts are archived after being delivered live. In the absence of transcripts, users are faced with increased difficulty in performing tasks easily achieved with text documents (retrieval, browsing, skimming). Unfortunately, speech recognition systems do not perform satisfactorily when transcribing lectures. In this paper, we present an overview of the ePresence le...