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This paper addresses the challenge of automatically extracting attributes from news article web pages across multiple languages. Recent neural network models have shown high efficacy in extracting information from semi-structured web pages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Pavel Bedrin , Maksim Varlamov , Alexander Yatskov

We report upon the results of a research and prototype building project \emph{Worldly~OCR} dedicated to developing new, more accurate image-to-text conversion software for several languages and writing systems. These include the cursive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Marek Rychlik , Dwight Nwaigwe , Yan Han , Dylan Murphy

Urdu, as a low-resource language, lacks effective semantic content recommendation systems, particularly in the domain of personalized news retrieval. Existing approaches largely rely on lexical matching or language-agnostic techniques,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Alishbah Bashir , Fatima Qaiser , Ijaz Hussain

The web experience in developing regions remains subpar, primarily due to the growing complexity of modern webpages and insufficient optimization by content providers. Users in these regions typically rely on low-end devices and limited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ayush Pandey , Matteo Varvello , Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed , Shurui Zhou , Lakshmi Subramanian , Yasir Zaki

Cross-lingual speech emotion recognition is an important task for practical applications. The performance of automatic speech emotion recognition systems degrades in cross-corpus scenarios, particularly in scenarios involving multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Siddique Latif , Adnan Qayyum , Muhammad Usman , Junaid Qadir

Though World Wide Web is the single largest source of information, it is ill-equipped to serve the people with vision related problems. With the prolific increase in the interest to make the web accessible to all sections of the society,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2012-04-25 K. S. Kuppusamy , Leena Mary Francis , G. Aghila

The conventional natural language processing approaches are not accustomed to the social media text due to colloquial discourse and non-homogeneous characteristics. Significantly, the language identification in a multilingual document is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 M Zeeshan Ansari , Tanvir Ahmad , M M Sufyan Beg , Asma Ikram

Natural Language processing (NLP) represents the task of automatic handling of natural human language by machines.There is large spectrum of possible applications of NLP which help in automating tasks like translating text from one language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Nikita P. Desai , Prof. , Vipul K. Dabhi

We develop a formal grammatical system called a link grammar, show how English grammar can be encoded in such a system, and give algorithms for efficiently parsing with a link grammar. Although the expressive power of link grammars is…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Daniel D. K. Sleator , Davy Temperley

Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) has become an important problem to solve in the recent years due to the growth of content in multiple languages in the Web. One of the standard methods is to use query translation from source to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Paheli Bhattacharya , Pawan Goyal , Sudeshna Sarkar

A multitude of web and desktop applications are now widely available in diverse human languages. This paper explores the design issues that are specifically relevant for multilingual users. It reports on the continued studies of Information…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Mahdi H. Miraz , Peter Excell , and Maaruf Ali

With over 60M articles, Wikipedia has become the largest platform for open and freely accessible knowledge. While it has more than 15B monthly visits, its content is believed to be inaccessible to many readers due to the lack of readability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Mykola Trokhymovych , Indira Sen , Martin Gerlach

Wikipedia articles (content pages) are commonly used corpora in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research, especially in low-resource languages other than English. Yet, a few research studies have studied the three Arabic Wikipedia…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Saied Alshahrani , Hesham Haroon , Ali Elfilali , Mariama Njie , Jeanna Matthews

We present research towards bridging the language gap between migrant workers in Qatar and medical staff. In particular, we present the first steps towards the development of a real-world Hindi-English machine translation system for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Ahmad Musleh , Nadir Durrani , Irina Temnikova , Preslav Nakov , Stephan Vogel , Osama Alsaad

In present century, data volume is increasing enormously. The data could be in form for image, text, voice, and video. One factor in this huge growth of data is usage of social media where everyone is posting data on daily basis during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Irfan Qutab , Khawar Iqbal Malik , Hira Arooj

Indexing techniques are used to improve retrieval of data in response to certain search condition. Inverted files are mostly used for creating indexes. This paper proposes indexing technique for Urdu language. Language processing step in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Muhammad Mudassar Qureshi , Muhammad Shoaib , Kalsoom

As the World Wide Web is growing rapidly, it is getting increasingly challenging to gather representative information about it. Instead of crawling the web exhaustively one has to resort to other techniques like sampling to determine the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-11 Eda Baykan , Monika Henzinger , Stefan F. Keller , Sebastian De Castelberg , Markus Kinzler

We make a first attempt to characterize image accessibility on Wikipedia across languages, present new experimental results that can inform efforts to assess description quality, and offer some strategies to improve Wikipedia's image…

Our goal is to use formal methods to analyse normative documents written in English, such as privacy policies and service-level agreements. This requires the combination of a number of different elements, including information extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-14 John J. Camilleri , Mohammad Reza Haghshenas , Gerardo Schneider

The Arabic language is a complex language; it is different from Western languages especially at the morphological and spelling variations. Indeed, the performance of information retrieval systems in the Arabic language is still a problem.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-06 Abd El Salam Al Hajjar , Anis Ismail , Mohammad Hajjar , Mazen El-Sayed