Personalization is a technique used in Web search engines to improve the effectiveness of in- formation retrieval systems. In the field of personalized web search has recently been doing a lot of research and applications. ...

The transformation of print media into online media along with the increasing use of the internet and social media as news sources have drastically altered the concept of media literacy and people's habit of getting news. ...

In recent years, pre-training approaches in the field of NLP have emerged with the increase in the number of data and developments in computational power. Although these approaches initially included only pre-training a ...

Accurate estimations play a significant role in the success of software projects, and companies should have sufficient number of past project data to make these estimations accurate and reliable. Some institutions gather ...

Authorship verification is a decision problem that tries to find out whether the text of an unknown author belongs to a suspicious author. The problem is the fundamental one of the studies in authorship analysis that has ...

Recognizing human interactions in still images is quite a challenging problem since compared to videos, there is only a glimpse of interaction in a single image. In this thesis, we explore the role of two components that ...

Making sense of ever-growing amount of visual data that is available on the web is one of the biggest challenges we face today. As a step towards this goal, this study tackles a relatively less-studied topic in the literature, ...

String matching is one of the oldest and actively studied problems in computer science. It has applications in computer security, bio-informatics, social media processing, data mining, data compression, coding theory, and ...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a heterogeneous network of constrained devices connected both to each other and to the Internet. Since the significance of the IoT has risen remarkably in recent years, a considerable amount of ...

The problem of video captioning can be defined as describing a video content by using natural language in a way that a person can identify the video by performing information extraction from the given videos. Video captioning ...