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October 2008 Calendar

CS Masters' Thesis Defense

Title: Web and Mobile Based Dynamic Glossing Tool for Foreign Language Texts
Speaker: Puneet Kamboj
Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: GMCS 308
Thesis advisor: Dr Carl Eckberg

Abstract:
Annotation is add-on information attached at a particular point in a document or other piece of information. Much software exists for attaching annotations to document text. This thesis uses a concept of Hotword similar to annotations for attaching information to keywords and phrases in published books. Hotwords provides a new way of describing keywords or phrases in books by attaching text, image, audio and video based information to them. To ensure global reach this software is presented on Web and Mobile based platforms supporting multiple languages with an ability to add more languages.

The software developed serves as a great tool for E-Learning by providing more information on keywords and phrases. Students can also contribute by suggesting additional information for selected Hotwords. This keeps the information ever expanding.
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