Nowadays, many young innovators and startups are trying to turn their ideas into products to grow their business from the needs of customers. The mission is not easy because the definition of innovation may vary from one to another. So, the idea that solve the issue or challenge can be…
Richard Turin, the author of the book “Innovation Lab Excellence: Digital Transformation from within”, went behind the scenes of working innovation labs to distill a rigorous set of best practices. The 12 best practices unleash the required innovation that will give your enterprise a digital competitive advantage. From his experience…
Qatar has ranked first worldwide on the Digital Accessibility Rights Evaluation Index 2020 (DARE Index 2020) released by the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (G3ict).DARE Index is a benchmarking tool for disability advocates, governments, civil society, international organizations and policymakers to trace country progress in making Information…
When it comes to inventions and technological assistance for the hearing impaired, science has come a long way, there is absolutely no doubt about that. However, we live in a day and age where humans, by default, are genetically engineered to want more and to crave more, which is completely…
Hello! In this tutorial, you will be able to deploy your statistical machine translation for the pair of language English and American Sign Language in written form. If you want to cite my work in your research papers, please refer to this publication: Achraf Othman, Mohamed Jemni, “Designing High Accuracy…
Downgrading GCC and G++ compilers in Ubuntu is mandatory to build some packages (like IRSTLM, Giza++, Moses, etc.). In this tutorial, I will present an easy way to install gcc-4.4, gcc-4.6, gcc-4.9, g++-4.4, g++-4.6, and, g++-4.9. First of all, you need to update the sources repository using a text editor…
News about the COVID-19 outbreak has been coming fast and furious over the last weeks. There’s been a lot to process — some fatalities, hundreds sickened across the world and many changes to everyday life. People are working from home, keeping their distance from others, and not being able to…
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In this article, the authors deal with the machine translation of written English text to sign language. They study the existing systems and issues in order to propose an implantation of a statistical machine translation from written English text to American Sign Language (English/ASL) taking care of several features of…
