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Mixed-Language Arabic- English Information Retrieval
(2013)
This thesis attempts to address the problem of mixed querying in CLIR. It proposes mixed-language (language-aware) approaches in which mixed queries are used to retrieve most relevant documents, regardless of their languages. ...
Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa [electronic resource]
(2011)
An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is a software application which recognizes human speech, processes it as input, and displays a text version of the speech as output or uses the input as commands for another ...
Can health workers capture data using a generic mobile phone with sufficient accuracy for Capture at Source to be used for clinical research purposes?
(2014)
Objective: To determine the accuracy, measured by error rate, with which Clinical Research Workers (CRWs), with minimal experience in data entry, could capture data on a feature phone during an interview using two different ...
Designing an interface to provide new functionality for the post-processing of web-based annotations
(2014)
Systems to annotate online content are becoming increasingly common on the World Wide Web. While much research and development has been done for interfaces that allow users to make and view annotations, few annotation ...
A simplified game engine for a game development course
(2014)
The Video Game industry is maturing. Success in the video game industry relies on many things, including marketing, sound business practises, and top notch technical implementation. Games Engines are software systems that ...
Fast galactic structure finding using graphics processing units
(2014)
Cosmological simulations are used by astronomers to investigate large scale structure formation and galaxy evolution. Structure finding, that is, the discovery of gravitationally-bound objects such as dark matter halos, ...
Ubiquitous mesh networking : application to mobile communication and information dissemination in a rural context
(2014)
ICT has furthered the social and economic development of societies but, rural African communities have lagged behind due to issues such as sparse population, low household income, a lack of electricity and other basic ...
Internet of things : least interference beaconing algorithms
(2014)
The emerging sensor networking applications are predicting the deployment of sensor devices in thousands of computing elements into multi-technology and multi-protocol platforms. Access to information will be available not ...
Perceptions of cloud computing in the South African government
(2014)
The South African government is unable to provide efficient Information Technology (IT) services to the citizens because of the fragmented approach in government where each department procures their own IT services and ...