The reading of text by computer without human intervention remains an elusive goal of Artificial Intelligence research. Reading is the transformation of an arbitrary page of text, that could contain a mixture of machine -printed, hand -printed, or handwritten text, from its representation as a two -dimensional image into a form understandable by a computer' such as ASCII code. The current lack ...

A number of experiments have shown that, in skilled adult readers, a small increase in interletter spacing speeds up the process of visual word recognition relative to the default settings (i.e., judge faster than judge). The goal of the present experiment was to examine whether this effect can be generalized to a more ecological scenario: text reading. Each participant read two stories (367 wo...

The advent of “distant reading” methods has created the opportunity to look at texts in a new way. But with the shift from close to distant reading, there is also a danger of loosing sight of fine-grained text structure. Like any method, distant reading methodology is not theoretically neutral, but carries a bundle of presuppositions. In this paper, a new method of text network analysis is prop...