Is there an evolution or progress in the Philosophy of Documentation and Professional Writing? Yes, there definitely is! How do I know? – Because during the past four decades I was involved in various aspects of scientific and humanity-related documentation (e.g. creation of data bases), writing reference and text books, editing of books and several international journals, and publishing of hun...

Hundreds of thousands of music scores are being digitized by libraries all over the world. In contrast to books, they generally remain inaccessible for content-based retrieval and algorithmic analysis. There is no analogue to Google Books for music scores, and there exist no large corpora of symbolic music data that would empower musicology in the way large text corpora are empowering computati...

Owing to the growing interest in communicative, cultural and pragmatic aspects of second language learning in recent years, the present study tried to investigate representations of pragmatic aspects of English as a foreign language in Iranian high school textbooks. Using Halliday’s (1978), and Searle’s (1976) models, different language functions and speech acts were specifically determined and...

this paper reviews the literature on the translation of 'doublets'and reports a product-oriented descriptive study on the translation of doublets in the corpus of study, three persian books translated into english: bizhun & manizha (an epic poetry), selected poems divan-e from shams-e tubrizi and man and his destiny (a religious text). these books vary in genre and cover a lime span o...

This paper describes our work in digital talking book alignment, starting by our earlier efforts for the alignment of books in European Portuguese, and ending with the two challenges we are currently facing of aligning books in different varieties of Portuguese and aligning parallel books in different languages. Our alignment module proved robust enough for porting to other varieties of Portugu...

Compilation of a 100 million words balanced corpus called the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (or BCCWJ) is underway at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. The corpus covers a wide range of text genres including books, magazines, newspapers, governmental white papers, textbooks, minutes of the National Diet, internet text (bulletin board and blogs) and...

Books can be owned simultaneously by the author, the merchant, and the purchaser, making it possible, as Lucius Annaeus Seneca observes, “for Titus Livius to receive his own books as a present, or to buy them from Dorus,” a bookseller.1 Ownership of a literary text is thus complicated rather than resolved by its presentation or sale: proprietary interest is multiplied as the text is reproduced,...

Mohamed Sobhi has been struggling to get into books for most of his life. Unable to read normal size text because of his low vision – a bilateral impairment that cannot be corrected by lenses, therapy or medical/surgical interventions – he started out by using photocopiers to enlarge the text, a time-consuming process that also generated reams of paper. When scanners came along he dispensed wit...