As the internet grows, amount of electronic text increases rapidly. This brings the advantage of reaching the information sources in a cheap and quick way.

RIS Review of Information Science, a full refereed electronic journal, has been published at the Department of Information Science, University of Konstanz, Germany since July 1996. This text firstly gives a brief introduction to RIS and then reports the main results of a study on the users’ behaviour when using RIS followed by a discussion on these results. The study is based on an analysis of ...

My broad concern is with texts which aim to persuade an audience of a particular point of view on a particular topic – persuasion texts. Political speeches and newspaper editorials are examples of this text type. I put forward a strategy for critically engaging with such texts. Its focus is a persuasion text’s cohesion – how it is held together through its vocabulary and grammar. The strategy e...

In this paper, we deal with the problem of authentication and tamper-proofing of text documents that can be distributed in electronic or printed forms. We advocate the combination of robust text hashing and text datahiding technologies as an efficient solution to this problem. First, we consider the problem of text data-hiding in the scope of the Gel’fand-Pinsker data-hiding framework. For illu...

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the most commonly used technique to convert printed material into electronic form. Using OCR, large repositories of machine readable text can be created in a short time. An information retrieval system can then be used to search through large information bases thus created. Many information retrieval systems use sophisticated term weighting functions to im...

Most people with low vision need magnification to read. Page navigation is the process of moving a magnifier during reading. Modern electronic technology can provide many alternatives for navigating through text. This study compared reading speeds for four methods of displaying text. The four methods varied in their page-navigation demands. The closed-circuit television (CCTV) and MOUSE methods...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are becoming highly prevalent today and have the potential to add to the success of spontaneous reporting systems for post marketing surveillance of drugs. EHR systems broadly contain two forms of information viz. coded (structured) information and unstructured text. Researchers have shown that the textual data have much more utility for cohort building th...