Efforts at Disguise in Typewritten Documents

A Holistic Methodology for Keyword Search in Historical Typewritten Documents

In this paper, we propose a novel holistic methodology for keyword search in historical typewritten documents combining synthetic data and user's feedback. The holistic approach treats the word as a single entity and entails the recognition of the whole word rather than of individual characters. Our aim is to search for keywords typed by the user in a large collection of digitized typewritten h...

A Complete Approach to the Conversion of Typewritten Historical Documents for Digital Archives

This paper presents a complete system that historians/archivists can use to digitize whole collections of documents relating to personal information. The system integrates tools and processes that facilitate scanning, image indexing, document (physical and logical) structure definition, document image analysis, recognition, proofreading/correction and semantic tagging. The system is described i...

Dualism in Disguise

ELT: A Trojan Horse in Disguise?

Many people believe that language teaching is a neutral practice. However, this belief is not without its own opponents. To many scholars, teaching languages cannot be devoid of teaching cultural values of the target language, which tacitly aims at denigrating cultural values of the community of the learners who are learning it. The ultimate purpose of such cultural oppression, according to the...

Tobacco industry efforts at discrediting scientific knowledge of environmental tobacco smoke: a review of internal industry documents.

STUDY OBJECTIVE Using tobacco industry internal documents to investigate the use of tobacco industry consulting scientists to discredit scientific knowledge of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). DESIGN Basic and advanced searches were performed on the Philip Morris, Tobacco Institute, R J Reynolds, Brown and Williamson, Lorillard, and the Council for Tobacco Research document web sites, with ...