Why-type non-factoid questions are ambiguous and involve variations in their answers. A challenge in returning one appropriate answer to user requires the process of appropriate answer extraction, re-ranking and validation....
Understanding the actual need of user from a question is very crucial in non-factoid why-question answering as Why-questions are complex and involve ambiguity and redundancy in their understanding. The precise requirement is to...
Extracting knowledge from unstructured text and then classifying it is gaining importance after the data explosion on the web. The traditional text classification approaches are becoming ubiquitous, but the hybrid of semantic...
Nowadays, Cloud Computing has become the most attractive platform, which provides anything as a Service (XaaS). Many applications may be developed and run on the cloud without worrying about platforms. It is a big challenge to...
Face Recognition is an efficient technique and one of the most liked biometric software application for the identification and verification of specific individual in a digital image by analysing and comparing patterns. This...
A domain-independent conceptual model that aims to be highly reusable across specific domain applications is provided by upper-level ontologies which usually describe abstract concepts. In this paper, the authors proposed...
Business intelligence (BI) helps organizations to make better and quicker decisions. The primary requirement, as per previous studies, for any successful BI implementation in an organization and its' stakeholders, is to...
The need of the customers to be connected to the network at all times has led to the evolution of mobile technology. Operating systems play a vitol role when we talk of technology. Nowadays, Android is one of the popularly used...
Cervical cancer is second most prevailing cancer in women all over the world and the Pap smear is one of the most popular techniques used to diagnosis cervical cancer at an early stage. Developing countries like India has to...
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is an emerging solution that aims to standardize existing proprietary streaming systems. DASH specification defines the media presentation description (MPD), which describes a list of...
In the knowledge-based economy, creation, management, and dissemination of knowledge in an organized way will certainly enhance the innovative practices of companies in any country. This article has tried to explore the impact...
A two-phase diagnostic framework based on hybrid classification for the diagnosis of chronic disease is proposed. In the first phase, feature selection via ReliefF method and feature extraction via PCA method are incorporated....
As the Internet users’ communities and the information on the web are increasing exponentially, that too associated with a wide range of different cultures and languages; meaningful search in a multilingual setting is required....
Software Engineering is a branch of computers that includes the development of structured software applications. Estimation is a significant measure of software engineering projects, and the skill to yield correct effort...
Cervical cancer is second most prevailing cancer in women all over the world and the Pap smear is one of the most popular techniques used to diagnosis cervical cancer at an early stage. Developing countries like India has to...
The healthcare domain gets wide attention among the research community due to incremental data growth, advanced diagnostic tools, medical imaging processes, and many more. Enormous healthcare data is generated through diagnostic...
Chronic disease like kidney failure, heart disease, cancer etc. is the major cause of deaths now days worldwide. Especially for the females the most dangerous type of disease from which the women of every age group are suffering...
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed to deal with text summarization for the Punjabi language. PSO is based on intelligence that predicts among a given set of solutions which is the best solution. The search...
Rapid growth in communication technology allows users location-independent access to IT infrastructure at pay-per-use via cloud computing. This has paved a new paradigm in information processing for the consumers. Due to Cloud's...
Success of any web product and application relies upon how thoughtfully and wisely technology has been implemented for developing and deploying that product – be it e-commerce product or e-learning product. Alongside pedagogy...
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is a popular non-invasive technique used for assessing the cardiac performance. Automating the segmentation helps in increased diagnosis accuracy in considerably less time and effort. In this...
The increase in the number of users on the internet and the advancement in information technology have spiked the generation of information to an unprecedented level making information retrieval and web mining a difficult task....
The purpose of the study is to examine the influence of hedonic and utilitarian motivation on Indian consumer's online purchase intention. Second, this study tried to explore if social media mediates the influence of hedonic and...
Rise of internet and penetration of smartphones have made digital content accessible though Entertainment Streaming Apps (ESA). With the flexibility of time and place, ESA platforms are changing the dynamics of entertainment...
The Indian film industry serves as the second movie capital of the world next to only Hollywood, supporting the livelihood of over 60 lakh people. Madame Tussauds museum in London, which has the wax statues of celebrities from...