With the increasing number of documents that are available in digital form, also the number of digital historical documents is increasing (Berkvens, 2001). It cannot be assumed that standard IR systems perform well on historical documents: historical texts differ from modern texts in three ways (Hüning, 1996; Van Der Horst and Marschall, 1989): (a) vocabularies have changed, (b) spelling has ch...

Historical accuracy is an often overlooked and understudied topic in the study of realism in video games. For some games, however, this topic is both an extremely interesting and important one, quite deserving of attention. In this paper, we investigate many of the issues and challenges of historical realism in video games, with a focus on strategy games. In particular, we examine these issues ...

This work deals with some interesting issues that arose when the ITC-irst broadcast news transcription system was applied to transcribe the audio track of historical documentary films. Due to an evident acoustic and linguistic mismatch between the broadcast news and the new application domain, the initial word error rate was of 46.4%. By exploiting a limited amount of manually annotated trainin...

using the narrative poetry to express human and social concerns is one of the commonalities between nima yooshij and khalil matran, the modern persian and arab poets. lots of nima’s poems benefit the narrative aspects. khilil matran is also of the arab poets who have imported the narrative aspects in modern arabic poetry. based on the method of comparative literature, this study has being accom...

This paper reports the results of research and analysis undertaken by Census Bureau staff. It has undergone a Census Bureau review more limited in scope than that given to official Census Bureau publications. This report is released to inform interested parties of ongoing research and to encourage discussion of work in progress.

v) Government interactions with representative Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHO) have all but rarely been characterised by unequal power relationships which features a lack of respect for Aboriginal peoples, and our history, culture, society, intelligence, human rights and sovereignty. It has been recognised that all too often bureaucrats and their appointed advisers ...

It is a common practice in the process industries to compress plant data before it is archived. However, compression may alter the data in a manner that makes it difficult to extract useful information from it. In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of a new pattern matching technique1 for applications involving compressed historical data. We also compare several data compression methods w...