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Short message communications: users, topics, and in-language processing 短消息通信:用户、主题、语言处理

ACM DEV '12 Pub Date : 2012-03-11 DOI: 10.1145/2160601.2160607

R. Munro, Christopher D. Manning

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引用次数: 30

Mobile application research and development: the African context 移动应用研究与开发:非洲背景

ACM DEV '12 Pub Date : 2012-03-11 DOI: 10.1145/2160601.2160627

N. Amanquah, M. Mzyece

引用次数: 5

Concept to design a hand-held crop management device (CMD) for farmers 为农民设计手持式作物管理设备(CMD)的概念

ACM DEV '12 Pub Date : 2012-03-11 DOI: 10.1145/2160601.2160624

Rakshit Agrawal, Mridu Atray, S. Sundari

引用次数: 1

Shreddr: pipelined paper digitization for low-resource organizations Shreddr:低资源组织的流水线纸张数字化

ACM DEV '12 Pub Date : 2012-03-11 DOI: 10.1145/2160601.2160605

Kuang Chen, Akshay Kannan, Yoriyasu Yano, J. Hellerstein, Tapan S. Parikh

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引用次数: 53

Discriminative pronunciation learning for speech recognition for resource scarce languages 资源稀缺语言语音识别的辨析语音学习

ACM DEV '12 Pub Date : 2012-03-11 DOI: 10.1145/2160601.2160618

H. Y. Chan, R. Rosenfeld

引用次数: 20