The paper presents a software architecture aiming to improve accessibility to information in specialized texts, with focus on medical texts. This software also addresses other problems related to text accessibility such as vision problems and language problems. It allows text input in any media format (text, image, sound) and outputs the text as digital text or sound, permitting the user to sca...

Two studies using the methods of experimental psychology assessed the effects of two types of text presentation (page-by-page vs. scrolling) on participants’ performance while reading and revising texts. Greater facilitative effects of the page-by-page presentation were observed in both tasks. The participants’ reading task performance indicated that they built a better mental representation of...

Abstract-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:...

A common problem in creating interactive drama is the authoring bottleneck. If pre-authored stories are directly incorporated into an interactive virtual environment then there is a need to consider all possible interactions and story twists, which for a sizeable drama is infeasible. One proposed solution to this problem is to use search and planning algorithms along with narrative structures. ...

The goal of this research is to lay the foundations for a formal theory of drama, that abstracts from the procedural and interactive aspects involved in the generation of dramatic content. The theory characterizes dramatic qualities by reconciling the structural accounts provided by traditional drama analysis with an agent-based perspective on characters. 1 Motivations and Formalization In the ...

This paper presents the Bacteria Biotope task of the BioNLP Shared Task 2013, which follows BioNLP-ST-11. The Bacteria Biotope task aims to extract the location of bacteria from scientific web pages and to characterize these locations with respect to the OntoBiotope ontology. Bacteria locations are crucial knowledge in biology for phenotype studies. The paper details the corpus specifications, ...

Lexicons of word difficulty are useful for various educational applications, including readability classification and text simplification. In this work, we explore automatic creation of these lexicons using methods which go beyond simple term frequency, but without relying on age-graded texts. In particular, we derive information for each word type from the readability of the web documents they...

this study aimed to assess the quality of persian translation of orwell's (1949) nineteen eighty-four by balooch (2004) based on house's (1997) model of translation quality assessment. to do so, 23 pages (about 10 percent) of the source text were randomly selected. the profile of the source text register was produced and the genre was realized. the source text profile was compared to the transl...