Human civilizations have performed the art of writing across continents and over different
time periods. In order to speed up the writing process, the art of shorthand (brachygraphy) …

Text normalization is the task of transforming lexically variant words to their canonical forms.
The importance of text normalization becomes apparent while developing natural language …

With advancements in modern technology in the current era, very large volumes of big data
have been generated and collected in numerous real-life applications. These have formed a …

The communication nowadays has reached a need to express the idea in short text. This
kind of communication is delivered in various media such as short messages service (SMS) …

The biggest challenge in analyzing unstructured data, such as data from social media, is the
presence of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words, which are words that are not listed in the …

String similarity estimation is important in many fields, including natural language
processing, information retrieval, and data mining. Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) has …

With the rapid development of the Internet, short text has become more and more popular on
the Internet and many short texts with a length of a few words to dozens of words have …

The species inventory of global biodiversity is constantly revised and refined by taxonomic
research, through the addition of newly discovered species. This almost three century old …

This article shows the experience in the implementation of a tool called Glyph Reader, which
is an application that has two interfaces, Web and Mobile and that responds to the need for …

An increasing number of heterogeneous datasets abiding by the Linked Data paradigm is
published everyday. Discovering links between these datasets is thus central to achieving …