Anusha Prakash

• Question Answering (QA), as a research field, has primarily focused on either knowledge bases (KBs) or free text as a source of knowledge. These two sources have historically shaped the kinds of questions that are asked over these sources, and the methods developed to answer them.

• In this work, we look towards a practical use-case of QA over user-instructed knowledge that uniquely combines elements of both structured QA over knowledge bases, and unstructured QA over narrative… Show more

• Question Answering (QA), as a research field, has primarily focused on either knowledge bases (KBs) or free text as a source of knowledge. These two sources have historically shaped the kinds of questions that are asked over these sources, and the methods developed to answer them.

• In this work, we look towards a practical use-case of QA over user-instructed knowledge that uniquely combines elements of both structured QA over knowledge bases, and unstructured QA over narrative, introducing the task of multi- relational QA over personal narrative. As a first step towards this goal, we make three key contributions:

(i) we generate and release TextWorldsQA, a set of five diverse datasets, where each dataset contains dynamic narrative that describes entities and relations in a simulated world, paired with variably compositional questions over that knowledge

(ii) we perform a thorough evaluation and analysis of several state-of-the-art QA models and their variants at this task, and

(iii) we release a lightweight Python-based framework we call TEXTWORLDS for easily generating arbitrary additional worlds and narrative, with the goal of allowing the community to create and share a growing collection of diverse worlds as a test-bed for this task. Show less

• The Microsoft Kinect which is a motion sensing input device presents a very straightforward and affordable approach to facilitate real-time user interaction. Although a lot of research has been conducted on the application of Kinect to gaming and virtual reality environments, its relevance to real-world scenarios has not been explored much.

• The features provided by the driver platforms such as OpenNI and Microsoft Kinect Software Development Kit (SDK) for development using Kinect… Show more

• The Microsoft Kinect which is a motion sensing input device presents a very straightforward and affordable approach to facilitate real-time user interaction. Although a lot of research has been conducted on the application of Kinect to gaming and virtual reality environments, its relevance to real-world scenarios has not been explored much.

• The features provided by the driver platforms such as OpenNI and Microsoft Kinect Software Development Kit (SDK) for development using Kinect coupled with the motion sensing ability of Kinect, presents a unique opportunity for extending the scope of the Kinect sensor.

• This paper proposes a system for automatically recognizing the road traffic control gestures of police officers and air marshalling commands by ground personnels. This system is aimed for self-learning, training and testing these officers to equip them with the skills to tackle real-world situations.

• Since these applications are very crucial and performing accurate gestures are of at most importance, this system will prove to be very essential. Experimental results also demonstrate that our system is robust and effective and is suitable for real-time application. Show less

• Kannada is the official language of the state of Karnataka and is a prominent South Indian language. Despite being one among the forty most spoken languages of the world, the rich heritage of Kannada literature along with its rich culture has so far remained limited only to those who know how to read Kannada.

• In order to bring this to the masses, there has been minimal research work in automatic translation and transliteration of Kannada works. In this paper, we present iKAN, a… Show more

• Kannada is the official language of the state of Karnataka and is a prominent South Indian language. Despite being one among the forty most spoken languages of the world, the rich heritage of Kannada literature along with its rich culture has so far remained limited only to those who know how to read Kannada.

• In order to bring this to the masses, there has been minimal research work in automatic translation and transliteration of Kannada works. In this paper, we present iKAN, a platform that aims to automatically transliterate and later, translate the Kannada script into English language, thus providing access to Kannada Literature.

• A phonetic mapping scheme was developed to enable readability and Kannada alphabets were represented in UTF-8 format, for transliteration into English. The Unicode approach used for the representation of characters resulted in high accuracy.

• We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach towards building a user-friendly Transliterator for Kannada that can be used as an e-learning tool. Show less

• Past decade has witnessed meteoric advances in the field of mobile computing owing to the development of affordable hardware technologies as well as user-friendly software platforms. Android, the platform marketed by Google has boomed in sales over the past few years making it one of the major mobile platforms in the market.

• The steady growth of wireless information and communication technology in convergence with rise in the penetration of Internet has led to the evolution of a… Show more

• Past decade has witnessed meteoric advances in the field of mobile computing owing to the development of affordable hardware technologies as well as user-friendly software platforms. Android, the platform marketed by Google has boomed in sales over the past few years making it one of the major mobile platforms in the market.

• The steady growth of wireless information and communication technology in convergence with rise in the penetration of Internet has led to the evolution of a wide range of mobile applications like news, multi-player games, social networking, messaging, etc. that need to access remote data.

• For the optimal functioning of all these applications an efficient synchronization mechanism is vital. However smart-phones have limited computational resources, power restrictions and intermittent Internet connections which pose a challenge for smooth synchronization.

• This paper proposes a two-way data synchronization mechanism between multiple Android clients and a central server to address these challenges. We employ a batching logic to ensure efficient data transfer in poor network environments and a server-side conflict resolution mechanism to reduce overhead on the clients, which ensures optimal processing and battery power consumption by the clients. Show less