Railroaders and Newspapers

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Pivaj: an Article-centered Platform for Digitized Newspapers Newspapers Layout

PIVAJ is a platform for archived digitized newspaper emphasizing articles: extracting them from digitized documents by automated page layout analysis, OCRing them, indexing their text transcription to allow users to search for content. Crowdsourcing is used to improve the quality of the indexing, by correcting the transcription and by tagging articles with keywords. The platform has been used t...

Voting Behavior, Newspapers, and Language

This paper investigates how newspaper consumption a ects political engagement. To circumvent potential endogeneity issues, I use variation in European languages as an instrument for newspaper consumption. Speci cally, I consider variation in how much physical space languages require to express some given information content. I rst estimate such language e ciency from large bilingual text compil...

Online newspapers: A substitute or complement for print newspapers and other information channels?

Research suggests that online newspapers are not as good as their printed counterparts in widening the range of topics their audience is aware of. But should we be concerned about that? So far, visiting online newspapers does not seem to be a substitute for reading traditional newspapers. But the evidence is scarce; only a few studies specifically look at the impact of online newspapers. In thi...

Intelligent Agents Generating Personal Newspapers

NewsAgent is an intelligent type of agent that has the capability of generating personal newspapers from particular user preferences extracted by observation and feedback. This agent generates personal newspapers using static word analysis for extracting a global classification and case-based reasoning for dynamic subclassification. The agent observes users by an applet with capabilities of det...