Digital signage is a Digital Information Display (DID) which expresses traditional advertisements of outdoor billboards by digital. In early digital signage was limited to provide contents consists texts, images and videos, but now it is combined with the network so contents can be installed, operated and replaced from a distance. These days digital signage is coming into wide use as a public d...

This article will explain the structure and function of a digital research environment for Buddhist studies entitled Research Base for Indian and Buddhist Studies (RBIB). In the field of Buddhist studies (and especially in the area of Indian Buddhism), scholars face various obstacles in their efforts to share materials—in both paper and digital media. In establishing the RBIB, we have considere...

Prior to digital communications media, texts were primarily judged using hidden but assumed institutional practices (e.g., journal peer review processes, editorial mediation). Increasingly, digital communications media can make these previously invisible discursive practices visible in a persistent medium. Doing so transforms these discourses into texts where they are subject to: (1) a reader's...

The digital world generates an incredible accumulation of information. This results in redundant, complementary, and contradictory information, which may be produced by several sources. Applications as multidocument summarization and question answering are committed to handling this information and require the identification of relations among the various texts in order to accomplish their task...

With the great and rapidly growing number of documents available in digital form (Internet, library, CD-Rom...), the automatic classification of texts has become a significant research field and a fundamental task in document processing. This paper deals with unsupervised classification of textual documents also called text clustering using Self-Organizing Maps of Kohonen in two new situations:...

Knowing the behavior of terms in written texts can help us tailor fit models, algorithms and resources to improve access to digital libraries and help us answer information needs in longer spanning archives. In this paper we investigate the behavior of English written text in blogs in comparison to traditional texts from the New York Times, The Times Archive, and the British National Corpus. We...