Introduction Both teacherand learner-made computer visuals are quite extensively reported in ComputerAssisted Language Learning literature, for instance, filming interviews (Gromik, 2006; HansonSmith & Marzio, 2006), soap operas (Alm, 2006, 2008) or mini-documentaries (Brooke, 2003), creating storyboard projects (Hazzard, 2006), authoring podcasts and vodcasts (Stanley, 2006), designing digital...

The eBetharké Syriac Digital Library Portal is a collaborative effort between the libraries at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; and the Beth Mardutho Syriac Institute, a traditional library of texts; to create a specialized digital library collection online. This digital library features content in and relating to Syriac, an Aramaic dialect spoken in the 1 century A.D. and for which...

This chapter is concerned with how the processing power and multimedia capabilities of modern computers can be exploited to understand the workings of stories told in combinations of different types of media. Since the early days of digital technology, computers have been used to count and analyze words and patterns of words in texts, chiefl y under the rubric of corpus stylistics, and more gen...

This paper concentrates on a major concern in the IS field – theory building – and couples it with a major development in our field, social media-related environments, to consider how we might build theory, using digital texts, within the case study

This paper describes a model that provides training data for a word alignment system that will be used to identify the translation relationships among the words in the parallel texts (Greek/Latin) of the bilingual corpus of the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG).

Interlinking Related Diverse Media in a Digital Library. (May 2006) Manas Sourava Singh, B.E., R.E.C Rourkela, India Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Richard Furuta Digital libraries are widely used for organizing and presenting large collections of artifacts. However, as the digital libraries grow in size, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the user to find all the resources related to ...

In this paper two highly innovative digital editions will be presented. For the creation and the implementation of these editions the latest developments within corpus research have been taken into account. The digital editions of the historical literary journals "Die Fackel" (published by Karl Kraus in Vienna from 1899 to 1936) and "Der Brenner" (published by Ludwig Ficker in Innsbruck from 19...