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In order to perform speech summmarization it is necessary to identify important segments in speech signal. The importance of a speech segment can be effectively determined by using infomation from lexical and prosodic features. Standard speech summarization systems depend on ASR transcripts or gold standard human reference summaries to train a supervised system which combines lexical and prosodic features to choose a segment into summary. We propose a method which uses prominence values of syllables in a speech segment to rank the segment for summarization. The proposed method does not depend on ASR transcripts or gold standard human summaries. Evaluation results showed that summaries generated by the proposed method are as good as the summaries generated using tf* idf scores and supervised system trained on gold standard summaries.

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The problem of extracting bilingual dictionaries from Wikipedia is well known and well researched. Given the structural and rich multilingual content of Wikipedia, a language independent approach is necessary for extracting dictionaries for various languages more so for under-resourced languages. In our attempt to mine dictionaries for under-resourced languages, we developed an iterative approach to construct parallel corpus for building a dictionary, for which we consider several kinds of Wikipedia article information like title, infobox information, category, article text and dictionaries already built at each phase. The average precision over various datasets is encouraging with maximum precision of 76.7%, performing better than existing systems. As no language-specific resources are used, our method is applicable to any pair of language with special focus on under-resourced languages and hence breaking the language barrier.

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We present a phrase based query expansion (QE) technique for enterprise search using a domain independent concept thesaurus constructed from Wikipedia link structure. Our approach analyzes article and category link information for deriving sets of related concepts for building up the thesaurus. In addition, we build a vocabulary set containing natural word order and usage which semantically represent concepts. We extract query-representational concepts from vocabulary set with a three layered approach. Concept Thesaurus then yields related concepts for expanding a query. Evaluation on TRECENT 2007 data shows an impressive 9 percent increase in recall for fifty queries. In addition to we also observed that our implementation improves precision at top k results by 0.7, 1, 6 and 9 percent for top 10, top 20, top 50 and top 100 search results respectively, thus demonstrating the promise that Wikipedia based thesaurus holds in domain specific search.

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Admission Control has been proven essential to avoid overloading of resources and for meeting user service demands in utility driven grid computing. Recent emergence of Cloud based services and the popularity of MapReduce paradigm in Cloud Computing environments make the problem of admission control intriguing. We propose a model that allows one to offer MapReduce jobs in the form of on-demand services. We present a learning based opportunistic algorithm that admits MapReduce jobs only if they are unlikely to cross the overload threshold set by the service provider. The algorithm meets deadlines negotiated by users in more than 80% of cases. We employ an automatically supervised Naive Bayes Classifier to label incoming jobs as admissible and non-admissible. From the list of jobs classified as admissible, we then pick a job that is expected to maximize service provider utility. An external supervision rule automatically evaluates decisions made by the algorithm in retrospect, and trains the classifier. We evaluate our algorithm by simulating a MapReduce cluster hosted in the Cloud that offers a set of MapReduce jobs as services to its users. Our results show that admission control is useful in minimizing losses due to overloading of resources, and by choosing jobs that maximize revenue of the service provider.

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Social media has become highly popular in recent years that people are expressing their views, thoughts about any product, movie through reviews. Reviews are having a great influence on people and decisions made by them. This has led researchers and market analyzers to analyze the opinions of users in reviews and model their preferences. Sometimes reviews are also scored in terms of satisfaction score on any product or movie by customer (ratings). These ratings usually vary on a scale from one to five (stars) or very bad to excellent. In this paper we address the problem of attributing a numerical score (one to five stars) to a review. We view it as a multi-label classification (supervised learning) problem and present two approaches, using Naïve Bayes (NB) and Support Vector Machines (SVM’s). We focus more on feature representations of reviews widely used; problems associated with them and present solutions which address them.

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There is a growing trend of using cloud environments for ever growing storage and data processing needs. However, adopting a cloud computing paradigm may have positive as well as negative effects on the data security of service consumers. This paper primarily aims to highlight the major security issues existing in current cloud computing environments. We carry out a survey to investigate the security mechanisms that are enforced by major cloud service providers. We also propose a risk analysis approach that can be used by a prospective cloud service for analyzing the data security risks before putting his confidential data into a cloud computing environment.

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We propose SAGE (Service Oriented Architecture Governance Evaluation) as a quantitative approach, to evaluate the impact of SOA governance policies on prominent quality attributes. Our approach facilitates an exhaustive quantitative impact analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of SOA governance policies. This can be further used to estimate the current maturity level of any SOA based enterprise. The use of SAGE at an initial stage will help to make SOA management more structured and effective.

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In this paper, we present a two-step language-independent spelling suggestion system. In the first step, candidate suggestions are generated using an Information Retrieval (IR) approach. In step two, candidate suggestions are re-ranked using a new string similarity measure that uses the length of the longest common substrings occurring at the beginning and end of the words. We obtained very impressive results by reranking candidate suggestions using the new similarity measure. The accuracy of first suggestion is 92.3%, 90.0% and 83.5% for Dutch, Danish and Bulgarian language datasets respectively.

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Ads on the search engine (SE) are generally ranked based on their Click-through rates (CTR). Hence, accurately predicting the CTR of an ad is of paramount importance for maximizing the SE's revenue. We present a model that inherits the click information of rare/new ads from other semantically related ads. The semantic features are derived from the query ad click-through graphs and advertisers account information. We show that the model learned using these features give a very good prediction for the CTR values.

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Implicit relevance feedback has proved to be a important resource in improving search accuracy and personalization. However, researchers who rely on feedback data for testing their algorithms or other personalization related problems are loomed with problems like unavailability of data, staling up of data and so on. Given these problems, we are motivated towards creating a synthetic user relevance feedback data, based on insights from query log analysis. We call this simulated feedback. We believe that simulated feedback can be immensely beneficial to web search engine and personalization research communities by greatly reducing efforts involved in collecting user feedback. The benefits from” Simulated feedback” are-it is easy to obtain and also the process of obtaining the feedback data is repeatable, customizable and does not need the interactions of the user. In this paper, we describe a simple yet effective approach for creating simulated feedback. We have evaluated our system using the clickthrough data of the users and achieved 77% accuracy in generating click-through data.