Idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF) is a controversial condition in which people describe symptoms following exposure to electromagnetic fields from everyday electrical devices. However, double-blind experiments have found no convincing evidence that electromagnetic fields cause these symptoms. In this study, we assessed whether recent newspaper r...

A notable development of recent times has been the exponential increase of video content available on newspaper websites. The technological convergence between press and broadcasting throws into sharp relief the historically disparate regulation of the two sectors. As long as no political consensus on regulatory convergence can be reached, the question of how to distinguish between text-based a...

Recent years have witnessed a crisis in journalism. Newspaper staffs have been cut by a third since 2000 (Pew Research Center 2013). Stock prices of major newspaper companies have fallen by more than half over the same period. The costly work of gathering, interpreting, and disseminating news—activities widely believed to have large positive political and social externalities (Downs 1957; Becke...

In this paper we investigate factors that influence trends in sentencing process basing on newspaper articles in order to find lexical clues for automatic trial verdict estimation. We examine verdicts for murder cases of the last 10 years using 149 newspaper articles (1998-2001) and 160 precedents from a database available online (2001-2007). The results showed that there is a tendency to give ...

The web newspaper pagination problem consists in optimizing the layout of a set of articles extracted from several web newspapers and sending it to the user as the result of a previous query. This layout should be as similar as possible to that of real newspapers and should be adapted to the user's web browser con®guration in real time. Previous approaches to the problem took rather a long time...

Parallel corpora have applications in many areas of Natural Language Processing, but are very expensive to produce. Much information can be gained from comparable texts, and we present an algorithm which, given any bodies of text in multiple languages, uses existing named entity recognition software and topic detection algorithm to generate pairs of comparable texts without requiring a parallel...