Searching large collections of digitized books is a relatively new area in information-seeking and retrieval research, made possible by initiatives such as Google Books and the HathiTrust Digital Library. The availability of large full-text book collections is transforming how users search and interact with information in books, but the characteristics of these changes are unknown. This paper a...

This paper describes our system for answering Center Exam subtask of QALab with three solvers. The first solver is based on search results obtained with different search engines as clues for answering questions. The second solver is trained with text books and virtual examples, generated automatically from text books by randomly replacing words in the text books. The third solver is for answeri...

Text alignment is one of the main processes for obtaining parallel corpora. When aligning two versions of a book, results are often affected by unpaired sections – sections which only exist in one of the versions of the book. We developed Text::Perfide::BookSync, a Perl module which performs books synchronization (structural alignment based on section delimitation), provided they have been prev...

Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization combined with subsequent document understanding enable direct content-based search as opposed to metadata only search (e.g. album title or author name). Few studies have been done in this direction. In this work we detail a novel approach for the automatic text localization in scanned comics book pages, ...

medical books written in islamic societies have devoted special chapters to preventive medicine named hefzossehha’. nowadays, ferdous alhekmah is considered as the first medical text authored by muslim scientists in islamic countries. but in this review study we offer a more ancient text that belongs to ali ibn musa (imam reza pbuh), the 8th imam of shi’ites. this text was written about 815-818...

E-books are full-text electronic versions of published books that can be read on special hand-held devices or computers. This paper discusses what e-books are, their advantages and disadvantages, e-book technologies and market players and the role of e-books in libraries. It concludes that the loan of e-books has the potential to reduce inter-library loan (ILL) traffic.