The advent of hypertext brings with it associated problems of how best to present nonlinear texts. As yet, knowledge of readers' models of texts and their uses is limited. Repertory grid analysis offers an insightful method of examining these issues and gaining an understanding of the type of texts that exist in the readers' worlds. The present study investigates six researchers' perceptions of...

In the article a prayer against gout from the early 19th century is analysed, which reflects the surviving medieval theurgical view of healing. It also sheds light on a less known sphere of Croatian Glagolitic texts, i.e. on texts with medical content written in Glagolitic script in Croatian lands.

Over the past few years, Video has become one of the prime source for recreation, be it Television or Internet. Television brings a whole lot of professionally produced video content (International or local, sports or educational, news or entertainment) to the home for the masses. Similarly, Internet hosts a whole lot of video content uploaded by other users. Understanding the context of the vi...

This paper discusses an approach to planning the content of instructional texts. The research is based on a corpus study of 15 French procedural texts ranging from step--bystep device manuals to general artistic procedures. The approach taken starts from an AI task planner building a task representation, from which semantic carriers are selected. The most appropriate RST relations to communicat...

In order to utilize the large volume of images in databases efficiently, content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been successfully employed whereby instead of the actual images extracted feature descriptors are used. CBIR systems usually employ multidimensional indexing structures, such as the R*tree or the SR-tree to index these features and thus to speed-up the query performance. However, th...

In this chapter, we present a basic introduction of the two very important areas of research in the domain of information technology, namely, multimedia systems and content-based image retrieval. The latter is still a widely unresolved problem. We discuss some of the works done so far in content-based image retrieval in the context of multimedia systems.

The paper discusses the role of invariance in content-based image retrieval, and discusses future directions.