THE impecunious medical student who has just acquired a general medical text book with a substantial infectious disease section can be forgiven if he regards the purchase of a small text book devoted entirely to infections as luxury. However, general medical text books classify infection by causative microbe which is useful for reference once diagnosis is made, but offers little help in identif...

This paper presents a mathematical morphology based methodology to identify and extract several components on antique printed books in order to automatically build metadata. These components were previously classified into five different sets (drop capitals, stripes, figures, annotations and text matter) each one characterised by particular geometric features. Based on that assumption several n...

We describe a software book model that emulates a range of properties associated with physical books— analog page turning, visual location cues, bookmarks and annotations—and, furthermore, incorporates many advantages of digital environments—hyperlinks, multimedia, full-text search, automatic identification of synonyms, cross-referencing of key terms with an online encyclopedia, and an automati...

was always available for use when required. Of course the value of a note-book lies in its compilation by the user of it himself, but we take it that by this book the author hopes to aid those whom he cannot personally reach. In the preface it is stated that the work is in no way meant to replace larger text-books or practical work in the laboratory, but to supplement these by helping the stude...

In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the inductive inference for large scale text classification kernel approaches and techniques book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge from the book and want to read just to get entertainment. Novels, story book, and other en...

Even a superficial meaning representation of a text requires a system of semantic labels that characterize the relations between the predicates in the text and their arguments. The semantic interpretation of syntactic subjects and objects, of prepositions and subordinate conjunctions has been treated in numerous books and papers with titles including words like DEEP CASES, CASE ROLES, SEMANTIC ...

made accessible. Fisher’s early modern audience recognizes the metaphysical comparison of Christ to a book because of their familiarity with contemporary books and the materials from which they are made. The metaphor endures centuries past the days of wood boards and vellum leaves because early modern manuscript books have been preserved as historical artifacts. Discussions of girdle books come...

This paper focuses on fiction electronic books and their usability. Two complementary studies were drawn together in order to investigate whether fiction e-books can successfully become part of people’s reading habits: the Visual Book project, which found that electronic texts which closely resemble their paper counterparts in terms of visual components such as size, quality and design were rec...

Studies of the overall structure of vocabulary and its dynamics became possible due to creation of diachronic text corpora, especially Google Books Ngram. This article discusses the question of core change rate and the degree to which the core words cover the texts. Different periods of the last three centuries and six main European languages presented in Google Books Ngram are compared. The ma...

We present a new version of the Google Books Ngram Viewer, which plots the frequency of words and phrases over the last five centuries; its data encompasses 6% of the world’s published books. The new Viewer adds three features for more powerful search: wildcards, morphological inflections, and capitalization. These additions allow the discovery of patterns that were previously difficult to find...