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Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance? (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Favre, B., Cheung, K., Kazemian, S., Lee, A., Liu, Y., Munteanu, C., …Zeller, F. (2013). Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?. In Proc. Interspeech 2013 (3463-3467). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2013-610

We propose an alternative evaluation metric to Word Error Rate (WER) for the decision audit task of meeting recordings, which exemplifies how to evaluate speech recognition within a legitimate application context. Using machine learning on an initial... Read More about Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?.

Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN) (2013)
Journal Article
Forchuk, C., Edwards, B., Rudnick, A., Osuch, E., Hoch, J., Norman, R., …McKillop, M. (2013). Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN). International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences, 5(1&2), 1-10

This research study introduces, delivers, and evaluates the benefits of using web and mobile technology to provide consistent supportive health care to individuals living within London, Ontario and the surrounding area who have been diagnosed with a... Read More about Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN).

Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging (2013)
Journal Article
Desrochers, N., Quan-Haase, A., Pennington, D. R., Laplante, A., Martin, K., & Spiteri, L. (2013). Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 50(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14505001014

Social tagging has become a common practice across a variety of platforms on the Web. In this panel, we propose to start with one title, Casino Royale, a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, and the other cultural products that emanated from it (e.g., tw... Read More about Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging.

Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling (2013)
Journal Article
Mu, M., Simpson, S., Bojko, C., Broadbent, M., Brown, J., Mauthe, A., …Hutchison, D. (2013). Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling. IEEE Communications Magazine, 51(8), 112-119. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2013.6576348

Conventional television services have been increasingly challenged by the more interactive and user-centric video sharing applications. With the growing popularity of social networks and video services, users are becoming the editors and broadcasters... Read More about Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling.

Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Chen, B., Dewar, M., Sellami, N., Stahl, H., & Blackford, J. (2013). Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (OS12A-06)

One of the concerns of employing CCS at engineering scale is the risk of leakage of storage CO2 on the environment and especially on the marine life. QICS, a scientific research project was launched with an aim to study the effects of a potential lea... Read More about Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment.

Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Baig, H., Sellami, N., Bahaidarah, H., & Mallick, T. (2013). Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia. In Proceedings of the 28th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (653-657). https://doi.org/10.4229/28thEUPVSEC2013-1CV.6.42

Saudi Arabia receives an average insolation of 6 kWh/m2/day, making it one of the most likely candidates for a country to be using solar energy for meeting its energy needs in the near future. The energy from the sun can be directly converted into el... Read More about Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia.

Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing – A Case Study: Google Chrome on Amazon (2013)
Book Chapter
Pakhira, A., & Andras, P. (2013). Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing – A Case Study: Google Chrome on Amazon. In S. Tilley, & T. Parveen (Eds.), Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline (252-279). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch012

Testing is a critical phase in the software life-cycle. While small-scale component-wise testing is done routinely as part of development and maintenance of large-scale software, the system level testing of the whole software is much more problematic... Read More about Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing – A Case Study: Google Chrome on Amazon.

Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Yang, S., Li, R., & Hillenbrand, D. (2013). Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform. In 2013 13th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2013). https://doi.org/10.1109/nano.2013.6720891

Designing nanoplasmonic devices presents a number of unique challenges. The time domain modelling and simulation of electromagnetic (EM) wave interaction with nanoplasmonic devices, at high spatial and time resolution, requires high computational pow... Read More about Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform.