Although drama exposure has been examined in the context of health promotion programs, the underlying mechanisms of reflecting on drama have not been established. The degree to which drama contemplation leads to cognitive changes (increased processing, self-compassion and emotional self-efficacy) and improved well-being was examined in the present research. An experiment was conducted in which ...

: The first translation of Freud published in Portugal appears to have been a version the 1905 text Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie, which came out November 1932 named Sexualidade.Published by Ática Pressin collection entitled Scientia Vitæ, translator's name –Osório de Oliveira –was,surprisingly,displayed prominent position on title page. A comparison between this translation, Freud's orig...

Most people with low vision require magnification to read. A magnifier's field of view often contains only a few letters at a time. Page navigation is the process by which the reader moves the magnifier from word to word, and from the end of one line to the beginning of the next line. Page navigation takes time and reduces reading speed. The major questions addressed in this paper are: (1) What...

This paper describes experimental results of WEB Navigational Retrieval Subtask 2 (WEB Navi-2). We made three gram-based indices, namely indices for text in whole page, text in title tag and text in anchor tag. Since gram-based indices are able to index all strings in target text, words that are not found in dictionaries are also indexed essentially. We used words in TITLE tag of search topics ...

The limits of current forms of interactive drama have been now clearly identified: interactive character based stories are poorly interactive, the plot remaining nearly linear; interactive virtual worlds are poorly dramatic, with no plot at all; the role of the user is confuse. This paper will give guidelines on how those problems should be tackled, by putting Artificial Intelligence (AI) in th...

Transcription of handwritten text in (old) documents is an important, time-consuming task for digital libraries. In this paper, an efficient interactivepredictive transcription prototype called GIDOC (Gimp-based Interactive transcription of old text DOCuments) is presented. GIDOC is a first attempt to provide integrated support for interactive-predictive page layout analysis, text line detectio...

Several models for transliteration pair acquisition have been proposed to overcome the out-of-vocabulary problem caused by transliterations. To date, however, there has been little literature regarding a framework that can accommodate several models at the same time. Moreover, there is little concern for validating acquired transliteration pairs using up-to-date corpora, such as web documents. ...

In this paper we discuss the way of evaluating topic segmentation, from mathematical measures on variously constructed reference corpus to contextual evaluation depending on different topic segmentation usages. We present an overview of the different ways of building reference corpora and of mathematically evaluating segmentation methods, and then we focus on three tasks which may involve a top...