For people with visual disabilities, reading Braille text is an important way to acquire information. There are great challenges for Chinese-Braille translation due to the characteristics of word segmentation and tone marking in Chinese Braille. In this paper, a novel scheme of Chinese-Braille...

In real world applications of speech recognition, recognition errors are inevitable, and manual correction is necessary. This paper presents an approach for the refinement of Mandarin speech recognition result by exploiting user feedback. An interface incorporating character-based candidate...

Q methodology is a method to systematically study subjective matters such as thoughts and beliefs on any given topic. Q methodology can be used for both theory building and theory testing. The purpose of this paper was to give a brief overview of Q methodology to readers with various...

With the development of e-commerce, websites such as Amazon and eBay have become very popular. Users post reviews of products and rate the helpfulness of reviews on these websites. Reviews written by a user and reviews rated by a user reflect the user's interests and disinterest. Thus, they are...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate whether a complementary effect exists between government R&D subsidies (GRSs) and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on innovation performance in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in China. This paper also attempts to understand whether...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of corporate social capital and local embeddedness on perceived business performance of Chinese enterprises operating overseas, whose recent growth resulted from the Belt and Road Initiative. Design/methodology/approach: This study...

Purpose: Online ratings (review valence) have been found to exert a strong influence on hotel room prices. This study aims to systematically synthesize research estimating the impact of online ratings on room rates using a meta-analytical method. Design/methodology/approach: From major academic...

Purpose: Some researchers have found that disasters may have a “blessing in disguise effect” that some disaster sites transformed into more popular tourism destinations; however, no studies have analyzed the heterogeneity of the “blessing in disguise effect”. This paper aims to explore...