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Jawaharlal Nehru University

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Darul Huda Islamic University, Kerala, India

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Kirorimal College,University Of Delhi

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UQuAD1.0: Development of an Urdu Question Answering Training Data for Machine Reading Comprehension

In recent years, low-resource Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has made significant progress, ... more In recent years, low-resource Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has made significant progress, with models getting remarkable performance on various language datasets. However, none of these models have been customized for the Urdu language. This work explores the semi-automated creation of the Urdu Question Answering Dataset (UQuAD1.0) by combining machine-translated SQuAD with human-generated samples derived from Wikipedia articles and Urdu RC worksheets from Cambridge O-level books. UQuAD1.0 is a large-scale Urdu dataset intended for extractive machine reading comprehension tasks consisting of 49k question Answers pairs in question, passage, and answer format. In UQuAD1.0, 45000 pairs of QA were generated by machine translation of the original SQuAD1.0 and approximately 4000 pairs via crowdsourcing. In this study, we used two types of MRC models: rule-based baseline and advanced Transformer-based models. However, we have discovered that the latter outperforms the others; thus, ...

Synchronised Annotation of Multimedia

… , 2009. ICALT 2009. …, Jul 15, 2009

Multimedia has become technically easier to create (eg recording lectures) but while users can ea... more Multimedia has become technically easier to create (eg recording lectures) but while users can easily bookmark, search, link to, or tag the WHOLE of a podcast or video recording available on the web they cannot easily find, or associate their notes or resources with, PART of that recording. This paper describes the development of a web based application that makes multimedia web resources (eg podcasts) easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for learners, teachers and other users through the creation of notes, ...

Dynamic Distance Learning Framework using Problem Based Assessment

Education is undergoing a major paradigm shift towards learning rather then teaching. Learning is... more Education is undergoing a major paradigm shift towards learning rather then teaching. Learning is no longer considered as a process transferring and distributing knowledge to the students. It is now viewed as a transformational process whereby students acquire facts, principles, and theories as conceptual tools for reasoning and problem solving in meaningful contexts. Internet is playing an important role for such student based learning.

Improved user RTSE experience on the web through fast retrieval of social media content

2012 15th International Multitopic Conference, Dec 1, 2012

ABSTRACT

A framework for focused linked data crawler using context graphs

2015 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT), 2015

Validating Teachers' Competence for Personal Learning Environments: A Delphi Study

This paper portrays the results of a Delphi study which was aimed to verify teachers' competencie... more This paper portrays the results of a Delphi study which was aimed to verify teachers' competencies for personal learning environments (PLEs). Using the modified version of policy-Delphi, we worked with 34 PLE experts at international level. These experts were either: teachers, researchers, designers, or practitioners. We did an extensive literature review to design the questionnaire for probe. A 60item PLE skills' list (that was divided into five core competences) was developed. During the process, Delphi participants collaboratively reviewed the list and reduced it from 60 skills to 54 skills. It took us three rounds to achieve either consensus or stability on majority of the items.

Wireless application guidelines for usability design and evaluation for developing countries

SkillsRec: A Novel Semantic Analysis Driven Learner Skills Mining and Filtering Approach for Personal Learning Environments based on Teacher Guidance

2015 Ieee 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, Mar 25, 2015

and learner interests as input, melds them using LSA, and returns learner skills for the PLE-base... more and learner interests as input, melds them using LSA, and returns learner skills for the PLE-based learning as output. We compare learner-skill similarity scores of the SkillsRec with those generated through conventional Information Retrieval (IR) and Keywords Matching (KM) techniques. The aim is to report SkillsRec gains over conventional IR techniques. Based on SkillsRec results, this paper also provides top N=8 user-user recommendations most likely to be similar for a given active learner as a testing data.

Thematic video indexing to support video database retrieval and query processing

Proceedings of Spie the International Society For Optical Engineering, Aug 1, 1999

This paper presents a novel video database system, which caters for complex and long videos, such... more This paper presents a novel video database system, which caters for complex and long videos, such as documentaries, educational videos, etc. As compared to relatively structured format videos like CNN news or commercial advertisements, this database system has the capacity to work with long and unstructured videos.

Reduction of Variables for Predicting Breast Cancer Survivability Using Principal Component Analysis

2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2015

ABSTRACT

Multimedia Annotation and Community Folksonomy Building

Abstract Multimedia has become technically easier to create (eg recording lectures) but while use... more Abstract Multimedia has become technically easier to create (eg recording lectures) but while users can easily bookmark, search, link to, or tag (ie classify) the WHOLE of a podcast or video recording available on the web they cannot easily find, or associate their notes or resources with, PART of that recording. This paper discusses how to meet the important and pervasive user need of making multimedia web resources (eg podcasts) easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for learners, teachers and other users through developing ...

Reduction of Variables for Predicting Breast Cancer Survivability Using Principal Component Analysis

ABSTRACT

Improving Software Quality: a Benchmarking Approach

Serp, 2007

It is difficult to improve software quality by relying on conformance to industry standards by co... more It is difficult to improve software quality by relying on conformance to industry standards by continuously upgrading from one standard or model to another standard or model because this exercise is complicated for some software organizations. 'Many multinational companies, developed internal standards based on the military standards, and then sought to improve the standard even further as their software development processes matured. The software development systems based on these internal, commercial standards, and improved over the years have proved to be good systems' . This paper will show you how to build up an efficient, workable system from basic principles through to writing 'Quality Manuals', 'Forms' and 'Templates' that can improve software quality by using CMMI (SW), CMM (SW) and ISO 9000-3:1997. The results of this research can be used in improving development and testing processes.

Implementing Constructivist Pedagogical Model in Dynamic Distance Learning Framework

The objective of this paper is to develop an educational framework, using data mining technologie... more The objective of this paper is to develop an educational framework, using data mining technologies, with the help of dynamic web technologies that will be used by teachers to organize the course contents on the web according to existing infrastructure, experience, needs, and later on reorganizing it if necessary, depending upon the performance of students. The approach to organize the lecture contents is based on the adaptive learning theory, incorporating Problem Based Learning (PBL) strategy. Presently, the course syllabus and handouts on the web sites provided to the student are static in nature. Once distributed, these documents cannot be changed or modified, and also lack depth. When course materials are placed on the web, students can select a topic in the course outline and look at the description of a topic, and required reading assignments. Instructors can easily change schedules in these on-line documents and inform the students via e-mail. Students can also submit assignments, projects and take-home exams electronically. A course home page is comprised of syllabus, assignments, projects and exams, readings and references, class presentation charts and student handouts. Students in a course are mostly assessed on the basis of the questions like why, how what, etc. In this way a student can be graded and ranked, which in turn provide the feedback to student for future improvements and challenges. Most of the web sites are implemented on the theory of constructivism. Constructivists propose that the construction for new knowledge starts from one's observations of events through past experiences. Hence, learning is the integration of new knowledge and behaviors into a framework and subsequently recalling relevant events in the appropriate situation. This theory is also applied in our educational framework.

<title>Thematic video indexing to support video database retrieval and query processing</title>

Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems IV, 1999

Integrating Specialization-Specific area courses' Assessments for Overall Program Assessment

In developing countries, industrial environment is not diversified enough to allow graduating eng... more In developing countries, industrial environment is not diversified enough to allow graduating engineers to seek jobs in all specialization areas of an engineering discipline. Hence, it seems necessary to seek evolution of an engineering program assessment for specialized requirements of the industry. In literature, the specialization-specific courses' assessment has not been reported, at least to our knowledge. This paper describes how specialization-specific courses' assessments are integrated for effectiveness towards overall program assessment. A software program application is developed to automate this development to reduce assessment work and show equivalently as integration of specialization-specific assessments per outcome per term.

Faculty performance evaluation system: An ontological approach

2014 IEEE/ACS 11th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), 2014

SkillsRec - AINA 2015 conference presentation

SkillsRec: A Novel Semantic Analysis Driven Learner Skills Mining and Filtering Approach for Personal Learning Environments Based on Teacher Guidance

2015 IEEE 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2015

and learner interests as input, melds them using LSA, and returns learner skills for the PLE-base... more and learner interests as input, melds them using LSA, and returns learner skills for the PLE-based learning as output. We compare learner-skill similarity scores of the SkillsRec with those generated through conventional Information Retrieval (IR) and Keywords Matching (KM) techniques. The aim is to report SkillsRec gains over conventional IR techniques. Based on SkillsRec results, this paper also provides top N=8 user-user recommendations most likely to be similar for a given active learner as a testing data.

Validating Teachers’ Competence for Personal Learning Environments: A Delphi Study

This paper portrays the results of a Delphi study which was aimed to verify teachers' competencie... more This paper portrays the results of a Delphi study which was aimed to verify teachers' competencies for personal learning environments (PLEs). Using the modified version of policy-Delphi, we worked with 34 PLE experts at international level. These experts were either: teachers, researchers, designers, or practitioners. We did an extensive literature review to design the questionnaire for probe. A 60item PLE skills' list (that was divided into five core competences) was developed. During the process, Delphi participants collaboratively reviewed the list and reduced it from 60 skills to 54 skills. It took us three rounds to achieve either consensus or stability on majority of the items.

UQuAD1.0: Development of an Urdu Question Answering Training Data for Machine Reading Comprehension

In recent years, low-resource Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has made significant progress, ... more In recent years, low-resource Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has made significant progress, with models getting remarkable performance on various language datasets. However, none of these models have been customized for the Urdu language. This work explores the semi-automated creation of the Urdu Question Answering Dataset (UQuAD1.0) by combining machine-translated SQuAD with human-generated samples derived from Wikipedia articles and Urdu RC worksheets from Cambridge O-level books. UQuAD1.0 is a large-scale Urdu dataset intended for extractive machine reading comprehension tasks consisting of 49k question Answers pairs in question, passage, and answer format. In UQuAD1.0, 45000 pairs of QA were generated by machine translation of the original SQuAD1.0 and approximately 4000 pairs via crowdsourcing. In this study, we used two types of MRC models: rule-based baseline and advanced Transformer-based models. However, we have discovered that the latter outperforms the others; thus, ...

Synchronised Annotation of Multimedia

… , 2009. ICALT 2009. …, Jul 15, 2009

Multimedia has become technically easier to create (eg recording lectures) but while users can ea... more Multimedia has become technically easier to create (eg recording lectures) but while users can easily bookmark, search, link to, or tag the WHOLE of a podcast or video recording available on the web they cannot easily find, or associate their notes or resources with, PART of that recording. This paper describes the development of a web based application that makes multimedia web resources (eg podcasts) easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for learners, teachers and other users through the creation of notes, ...

Dynamic Distance Learning Framework using Problem Based Assessment

Education is undergoing a major paradigm shift towards learning rather then teaching. Learning is... more Education is undergoing a major paradigm shift towards learning rather then teaching. Learning is no longer considered as a process transferring and distributing knowledge to the students. It is now viewed as a transformational process whereby students acquire facts, principles, and theories as conceptual tools for reasoning and problem solving in meaningful contexts. Internet is playing an important role for such student based learning.

Improved user RTSE experience on the web through fast retrieval of social media content

2012 15th International Multitopic Conference, Dec 1, 2012

ABSTRACT

A framework for focused linked data crawler using context graphs

2015 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT), 2015

Validating Teachers' Competence for Personal Learning Environments: A Delphi Study

This paper portrays the results of a Delphi study which was aimed to verify teachers' competencie... more This paper portrays the results of a Delphi study which was aimed to verify teachers' competencies for personal learning environments (PLEs). Using the modified version of policy-Delphi, we worked with 34 PLE experts at international level. These experts were either: teachers, researchers, designers, or practitioners. We did an extensive literature review to design the questionnaire for probe. A 60item PLE skills' list (that was divided into five core competences) was developed. During the process, Delphi participants collaboratively reviewed the list and reduced it from 60 skills to 54 skills. It took us three rounds to achieve either consensus or stability on majority of the items.

Wireless application guidelines for usability design and evaluation for developing countries

SkillsRec: A Novel Semantic Analysis Driven Learner Skills Mining and Filtering Approach for Personal Learning Environments based on Teacher Guidance

2015 Ieee 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, Mar 25, 2015

and learner interests as input, melds them using LSA, and returns learner skills for the PLE-base... more and learner interests as input, melds them using LSA, and returns learner skills for the PLE-based learning as output. We compare learner-skill similarity scores of the SkillsRec with those generated through conventional Information Retrieval (IR) and Keywords Matching (KM) techniques. The aim is to report SkillsRec gains over conventional IR techniques. Based on SkillsRec results, this paper also provides top N=8 user-user recommendations most likely to be similar for a given active learner as a testing data.

Thematic video indexing to support video database retrieval and query processing

Proceedings of Spie the International Society For Optical Engineering, Aug 1, 1999

This paper presents a novel video database system, which caters for complex and long videos, such... more This paper presents a novel video database system, which caters for complex and long videos, such as documentaries, educational videos, etc. As compared to relatively structured format videos like CNN news or commercial advertisements, this database system has the capacity to work with long and unstructured videos.

Reduction of Variables for Predicting Breast Cancer Survivability Using Principal Component Analysis

2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2015

ABSTRACT

Multimedia Annotation and Community Folksonomy Building

Abstract Multimedia has become technically easier to create (eg recording lectures) but while use... more Abstract Multimedia has become technically easier to create (eg recording lectures) but while users can easily bookmark, search, link to, or tag (ie classify) the WHOLE of a podcast or video recording available on the web they cannot easily find, or associate their notes or resources with, PART of that recording. This paper discusses how to meet the important and pervasive user need of making multimedia web resources (eg podcasts) easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for learners, teachers and other users through developing ...

Reduction of Variables for Predicting Breast Cancer Survivability Using Principal Component Analysis

ABSTRACT

Improving Software Quality: a Benchmarking Approach

Serp, 2007

It is difficult to improve software quality by relying on conformance to industry standards by co... more It is difficult to improve software quality by relying on conformance to industry standards by continuously upgrading from one standard or model to another standard or model because this exercise is complicated for some software organizations. 'Many multinational companies, developed internal standards based on the military standards, and then sought to improve the standard even further as their software development processes matured. The software development systems based on these internal, commercial standards, and improved over the years have proved to be good systems' . This paper will show you how to build up an efficient, workable system from basic principles through to writing 'Quality Manuals', 'Forms' and 'Templates' that can improve software quality by using CMMI (SW), CMM (SW) and ISO 9000-3:1997. The results of this research can be used in improving development and testing processes.

Implementing Constructivist Pedagogical Model in Dynamic Distance Learning Framework

The objective of this paper is to develop an educational framework, using data mining technologie... more The objective of this paper is to develop an educational framework, using data mining technologies, with the help of dynamic web technologies that will be used by teachers to organize the course contents on the web according to existing infrastructure, experience, needs, and later on reorganizing it if necessary, depending upon the performance of students. The approach to organize the lecture contents is based on the adaptive learning theory, incorporating Problem Based Learning (PBL) strategy. Presently, the course syllabus and handouts on the web sites provided to the student are static in nature. Once distributed, these documents cannot be changed or modified, and also lack depth. When course materials are placed on the web, students can select a topic in the course outline and look at the description of a topic, and required reading assignments. Instructors can easily change schedules in these on-line documents and inform the students via e-mail. Students can also submit assignments, projects and take-home exams electronically. A course home page is comprised of syllabus, assignments, projects and exams, readings and references, class presentation charts and student handouts. Students in a course are mostly assessed on the basis of the questions like why, how what, etc. In this way a student can be graded and ranked, which in turn provide the feedback to student for future improvements and challenges. Most of the web sites are implemented on the theory of constructivism. Constructivists propose that the construction for new knowledge starts from one's observations of events through past experiences. Hence, learning is the integration of new knowledge and behaviors into a framework and subsequently recalling relevant events in the appropriate situation. This theory is also applied in our educational framework.

<title>Thematic video indexing to support video database retrieval and query processing</title>

Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems IV, 1999

Integrating Specialization-Specific area courses' Assessments for Overall Program Assessment

In developing countries, industrial environment is not diversified enough to allow graduating eng... more In developing countries, industrial environment is not diversified enough to allow graduating engineers to seek jobs in all specialization areas of an engineering discipline. Hence, it seems necessary to seek evolution of an engineering program assessment for specialized requirements of the industry. In literature, the specialization-specific courses' assessment has not been reported, at least to our knowledge. This paper describes how specialization-specific courses' assessments are integrated for effectiveness towards overall program assessment. A software program application is developed to automate this development to reduce assessment work and show equivalently as integration of specialization-specific assessments per outcome per term.

Faculty performance evaluation system: An ontological approach

2014 IEEE/ACS 11th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), 2014

SkillsRec - AINA 2015 conference presentation

SkillsRec: A Novel Semantic Analysis Driven Learner Skills Mining and Filtering Approach for Personal Learning Environments Based on Teacher Guidance

2015 IEEE 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2015

and learner interests as input, melds them using LSA, and returns learner skills for the PLE-base... more and learner interests as input, melds them using LSA, and returns learner skills for the PLE-based learning as output. We compare learner-skill similarity scores of the SkillsRec with those generated through conventional Information Retrieval (IR) and Keywords Matching (KM) techniques. The aim is to report SkillsRec gains over conventional IR techniques. Based on SkillsRec results, this paper also provides top N=8 user-user recommendations most likely to be similar for a given active learner as a testing data.

Validating Teachers’ Competence for Personal Learning Environments: A Delphi Study

This paper portrays the results of a Delphi study which was aimed to verify teachers' competencie... more This paper portrays the results of a Delphi study which was aimed to verify teachers' competencies for personal learning environments (PLEs). Using the modified version of policy-Delphi, we worked with 34 PLE experts at international level. These experts were either: teachers, researchers, designers, or practitioners. We did an extensive literature review to design the questionnaire for probe. A 60item PLE skills' list (that was divided into five core competences) was developed. During the process, Delphi participants collaboratively reviewed the list and reduced it from 60 skills to 54 skills. It took us three rounds to achieve either consensus or stability on majority of the items.