Change Log

• 2023/12/26
  Minor modification to UI
• 2023/07/30
  Number of searchable talks exceeds 5,000
• 2022/09/03
  TCSE Bibliography page created
• 2022/09/01
  Problem in pagination fixed
• 2022/09/01
  Improved video/transcript sync
• 2022/09/01
  User interface in Japanese added
• 2022/09/01
  Noun chunk search function enabled
• 2022/09/01
  Replace English POS-Tagger/Syntactic Parser with spaCy
• 2022/09/01
  Burmese, Kurdish (Central), Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji), Slovak, and Hindi translations
• 2021/02/05
  Video type selection functionality added
• 2021/02/05
  Result randomization functionality added
• 2021/02/01
  Existing data reanalyzed and many new data added
• 2019/03/08
  Extracted keyword and discourse marker highlighting implemented (experimental)
• 2019/02/18
  Documentation released (https://tcse.gitbook.io)
• 2019/02/12
  Related talk recommendation based on cosine similarity was implemented
• 2019/02/06
  TF-IDF keywords have become searchable in "Search Talk Info"
• 2019/02/04
  Keywords extracted using TF-IDF are viewable by clicking on icon
• 2019/02/04
  Playback speed control and video quality control are hidden unless 'TED' is the selected video source
• 2018/12/01
  Swedish language translation added
• 2018/06/07
  A big increase of the number of talks with translation available
• 2018/03/11
  Usages of syntax updated: 'negative match' and 'one word wild card'
• 2017/09/21
  Improved video/transcript sync
• 2017/09/20
  Changed from auto-play to click-to-play / Video control simplified / Query timeout enabled
• 2017/09/18
  Better wpm calculation
• 2017/09/08
  Window styles largely modified
• 2017/09/05
  N-gram presentation algorithm changed; Lots of internal fixes
• 2017/08/27
  Startup time and language setting detection improved
• 2017/05/12
  Video and transcript sync problem largely resolved
• 2017/05/06
  Integrated help has been implemented.
• 2017/05/04
  Talk speed and readability/difficulty are shown in talk info and list.
• 2016/11/28
  Improved video sync on both TED and YouTube video playing modes.
• 2016/11/23
  Improved user exeperience in full screen video playing mode.
• 2016/11/19
  "I'm feeling lucky" button added to play a talk randomly selected.
• 2016/11/10
  TED Video quality is made selectable from normal (180k) or high (450k).
• 2016/11/02
  More responsive design
• 2016/11/01
  Shows speaker info when available
• 2016/10/30
  Segment repeat-play button added
• 2016/10/29
  Right-to-left languages (i.e. Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian) are supported (partial and experimental)
• 2016/10/29
  More translation languages added
• 2016/10/26
  Shows list of all availble talks
• 2016/10/22
  Video transcript view control added
• 2016/09/04
  Video source gets selectable (again) between TED and YouTube
• 2016/05/31
  Translation language is semi-automatically set using language code in request header
• 2016/05/30
  Various construction-related functions added (yet to be documented)
• 2016/04/09
  Video player positioning fixed and user experience on smartophones much improved
• 2016/04/07
  Video quality is now selectable from normal (180k) or low (64k).
• 2015/10/08
  Many more translation data have become available. A new algorithm was introduced and the previous restriction to translation data was dropped that excluded translations with different numbers of lines than the original English transcripts
• 2015/05/06
  Fallback search of videos implemented
• 2015/05/05
  3.0 was released. Transcript is now shown in sync with the video and you can even fine tune the sync. Presentations spoken in non-English languages have been removed from the database.
• 2015/04/25
  Controlable play speed / Automatic video stop
• 2015/04/24
  Small improvements on advanced search / Problems playing video due to YouTube API change fixed.
• 2015/02/25
  Stability improved (I hope). Clicking on English transcript will open a pop-up window showing not only POS analysis of the (expanded) segment but also translation in all the languages available.
• 2015/02/21
  Version 2.0 was released with many bug fixes. Translation text (partial) in 15 languages (= left-to-right languages to which more than 1,500 talks have been translated so far) are available for search now! (The advanced search in Japanese had to be removed as trade-offm though.)
• 2014/11/28
  TCSE now plays video right at the time location where the segments starts, with “play video 10 seconds earlier” option newly added
• 2014/11/14
  Video search accuracy improved.
• 2014/11/13
  Regular search now returns items containing matches begining from the onset of a word, not in the middle of a word.
• 2014/11/01
  Initial release.