Background: The public gets most of its information about genetic research from the media. It has been suggested that media representations may involve exaggeration, called “genohype.” To examine the accuracy and nature of media coverage of genetic research, we reviewed the reporting of single-gene discoveries and associated technologies in major daily newspapers in Canada, the United States, G...

(English Chinese) Overview Fredri Gey and Aitao Chen UC DATA and SIMS University of California, Berkeley e-mail: gey u data.berkeley.edu,aitao sims.berkeley.edu Abstra t Sixteen groups parti ipated in the TREC-9 ross-language information retrieval tra k whi h fo ussed on retrieving Chinese language do uments in response to 25 English queries. A variety of CLIR approa hes were tested and a ri h ...

In this paper, we report on the automatic recognition of Japanese broadcast-news speech. We have been working on largevocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) for Japanese newspaper speech transcription and have achieved good performance. We have recently applied our LVCSR system to transcribing Japanese broadcast-news speech. We extended the vocabulary from 7k words to 20k words and tr...

In this paper we address the problem of analyzing web log data collected at a typical online newspaper site. We propose a two-way clustering technique based on probability theory. On one hand the suggested method clusters the readers of the online newspaper into user groups of similar browsing behaviour, where the clusters are determined solely based on the click streams collected. On the other...

This paper investigates how newspaper consumption a ects political engagement. To circumvent potential endogeneity issues, I use variation in European languages as an instrument for newspaper consumption. Speci cally, I consider variation in how much physical space languages require to express some given information content. I rst estimate such language e ciency from large bilingual text compil...

The aim of layout analysis is to extract the geometric structure from a document image. It consists of labeling homogenous regions of a document image. This paper describes the performance of segmentation algorithms and their adaptation in order to treat complex structured Arabic documents such as newspapers. Experimental tests have been carried out on four different phases of newspaper image a...