This paper contrasts the content and form of objective versus subjective texts. A collection of on-line newspaper news items serve as objective texts, while parliamentary speeches (debates) and blog posts form the basis of our subjective texts, all in Portuguese. The aim is to provide general linguistic patterns as used in objective written media and subjective speeches and blog posts, to help ...

The classification of texts has become a major endeavor with so much electronic material available, for it is an essential task in several applications, including search engines and information retrieval. There are different ways to define similarity for grouping similar texts into clusters, as the concept of similarity may depend on the purpose of the task. For instance, in topic extraction si...

This paper presents, a hybrid method, low-resolution and high-resolution, for Persian page segmentation. In the low-resolution page segmentation, a pyramidal image structure is constructed for multiscale analysis and segments document image to a set of regions. By high-resolution page segmentation, by connected components analysis, each region is segmented to homogeneous regions and identifyi...