Document page segmentation is one of the most crucial steps in document image analysis. It ideally aims to explain the full structure of any document page, distinguishing text zones, graphics, photographs, halftones, figures, tables, etc. Although to date, there have been made several attempts of achieving correct page segmentation results, there are still many difficulties. The leader of the p...

The increasing adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems in the USA has resulted in many new studies. In this issue of JAMIA, Krist (See page 764) reports on needed functionality to better support primary care, while Feeley (See page 772) describes how cancer care can benefit from information technology. However, it is well known that the quality of EHR notes is highly variable. Burke...

Sound drama production prior to the onset of the ―Radio Age‖ underwent a pioneering development during the Great War. This was achieved by the making, publication and distribution of short audio dramas acted with sound effects and music in front of early microphones and released in the form of 78 rpm phonograph discs. Entertaining storytelling through dramatic performance was mobilized for the ...

Notwithstanding the differences displayed by drama criticism for what concerns the theoretical stance and the aims, the key role played by emotions seems to be a common aspect to most definitions of drama. Although the field of computational drama has acknowledged this trend, we argue that the role of emotions in character design deserves more attention, as it is the key to establish a distinct...

Cataloging a large, multi-media collection of traditional song and drama in preparation for online presentation highlights issues of song identity and access in the context of contemporary digitized archives. In the James Madison Carpenter collection a particular folksong sung by a particular individual may exist in multiple manifestations: typed song text, sound recording(s), and/or manuscript...

After reading the PDF file, please check the page proofs carefully and: 1) indicate changes or corrections in the margin of the page proofs; either electronically or by hand (which should then be scanned/emailed back). 2) answer all queries (footnotes A,B,C, etc.) on the last page of the PDF proof; 3) proofread any tables and equations carefully; 4) check that any Greek, especially "mu", has tr...

The usefulness of a translated text for gisting purposes strongly depends on the overall translation quality of the text, but especially on the translation quality of the most informative portions of the text. In this paper we address the problems of ranking translated sentences within a document and ranking translated documents within a set of documents on the same topic according to their inf...

multi-part words in english language are hyphenated and hyphen is used to separate different parts. persian language consists of multi-part words as well. based on persian morphology, half-space character is needed to separate parts of multi-part words where in many cases people incorrectly use space character instead of half-space character. this common incorrectly use of space leads to some s...

Text analysis involves the deconstruction of information within a text. This includes text structure, text pattern, linguistic features, lexical analysis, and syntactic analysis. This research took as its starting point the bottom-up approach of analysing the lexical features, syntactic features, and textual features of patent abstracts for comprehensive coverage of text analysis. Several tools...