A digital library is a collection of services and information objects for storing, accessing, and retrieving digital objects. Automatic text summarization presents salient information in a condensed form suitable for user needs. This thesis amalgamates digital libraries and automatic text summarization by extending the Greenstone Digital Library software suite to include the University of Lethb...

It is important to use pattern information (e.g. TV newscasts) and textual information (e.g. newspapers) together. For this purpose, we describe a method for aligning articles in TV newscasts and newspapers. In order to align articles, the alignment system uses words extracted from telops in TV newscasts. The recall and the precision of the alignment process are 97% and 89%, respectively. In ad...

In this paper, we propose a framework of video news system using image segmentation and augmented reality scheme. The goal of proposed system is to provide users with realistic audio-visual contents when they are interested in reading some topics on newspapers. In our approach, pictures on the newspapers were used as markers of augmented reality. Users can pick up these pictures to watch the co...

Social plugins for sharing news through Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly salient features on news sites. Together with the user comment feature, social plugins are the most common way for users to contribute. The wide use of multiple features has opened new areas to comprehensively study users’ participatory practices. However, how do these opportunities to participate vary between...

J.. VJLainstream daily newspapers, radio and television stations and weekly community newspapers typically serve the interests of the majority of people in their communities. However, the U.S. press system also has given rise to news outlets serving smaller community segments and groups with shared interests. From the 19th century black press, to the late-1900s populist and reform press to alte...

In 450 years of existence, the written press has never faced a change with the intensity and consequences as those of the Internet. The decision of going online represents a whole set of opportunities and threats that publishers must carefully weigh. Once they have made the step, newspapers find themselves in a completely different competitive environment. They deal with different competitors, ...

"FEMALE PILLS" or other internal medicines for "complaints peculiar to females" formed a small but distinct group among the medicines advertised in eighteenthcentury newspapers. There were, for instance, six such preparations found in a sample of Bath newspapers in the second half of the eighteenth century and one of them, Hooper's Female Pills, was the fourth most frequently advertised among t...

The rapid developments in neuroscientific techniques raise high expectations among the general public and therefore warrant close monitoring of the translation to the media and daily-life applications. The need of empirical research into neuroscience communication is emphasized by its susceptibility to evoke misconceptions and polarized beliefs. As the mass media are the main sources of informa...

BACKGROUND Uganda is one of the 57 countries with a critical shortage of health workers. The aim of this study was to determine how the human resources and health service crisis was covered in Ugandan newspapers and, in particular, how the newspapers attributed accountability for problems in the health services. METHODS We collected all articles related to health workers and health services f...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the replication validity of biomedical association studies covered by newspapers. METHODS We used a database of 4723 primary studies included in 306 meta-analysis articles. These studies associated a risk factor with a disease in three biomedical domains, psychiatry, neurology and four somatic diseases. They were classified into a lifestyle category (e.g. smoking) and...