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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Electronic Text"”.
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Electronic text processing in the large South African life assurance companies
… be part only of a more comprehensive concept - electronic text processing. This research project is directed towards the role of electronic text processing as an integral part of information management and integrated administrative support in the large South African life assurance companies. As …
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The Enhancing Reading Comprehension Performance using the Strategy of Highlighting Electronic Text
… continues to develop and replace paper-format text, it is critical to understand if there are any ramifications of using traditional reading comprehension strategies, such as highlighting material, in an electronic format. Thus, this study investigated if reading comprehension is improved when …
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Copious Electronic Text on Small Screen Interfaces: A New Method of Displaying Text on Cell Phones
… The participants read 9 short passages electronically presented as 2, 4, or 6 lines of text in rapid sequence on a simulated cell phone display interface, at three speeds. Comprehension of text passages was examined in an attempt to find an ideal method of presenting lengthy text on a …
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Electronic Books: An Overview of the First Two Generations.
<p>The electronic text reading device, or e-book, is an idea that has reached the implementation stage. Technology has only recently made possible the production of a device to challenge the printed book’s dominance as the media for information transmission. These microprocessor-based devices are …
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A language-based approach to categorical analysis
… that most of our media comes in the form of electronic text, research in this area focuses on building automatic text classification systems. The standard representation employed by these systems, known as the bag-of-words approach to information retrieval, represents documents as collections …
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Reading comprehension evaluated through electronic storybooks and traditional print storybooks
… purpose of this study was to determine whether electronic text storybooks, when compared to printed storybooks, affect students' comprehension skills. Reading comprehension is a process by which the reader constructs meaning with the text. With electronic texts, the computer is able to control …
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Cognition-based approaches for high-precision text mining
… of information extraction from free-form text via the use of cognitive-based approaches to natural language processing (NLP). Cognitive-based approaches are an important, and relatively new, area of research in NLP and search, as well as linguistics. Cognitive approaches enable significant …
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Computational immersive displays
… way. The second system, the Narratarium, is a context-aware projector that applies pattern recognition and natural language processing to an input such as an audio stream or electronic text to generate images, colors, and textures appropriate to the narrative or emotional content. The system …
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Learner Modelling for Individualised Reading in a Second Language
… of easy and interesting second language (L2) text. However, graded readers used by beginner learners are expensive and often dull. The alternative is text written for native speakers (authentic text), which is generally too difficult for beginners. The aim of this research is to overcome this …
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Improving Access to Computer Displays: Readability for Visually Impaired Users
… factors engineering the issue of how to present electronic text to people has been studied intensely for over 35 years. However, one major consideration that has largely been overlooked in these studies is how visual impairments affect reading of computer text. Specifically, the issue of how text …
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Spatial Reading System for Individuals with Blindness
… spatial access to the original layout of any electronic text document. This system<br />renders text on iPad-type devices, and reads aloud each word touched by the user\'s finger.<br />The user could move her finger smoothly along the lines to read continuously with the<br />support of tactile …
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Genre And Persona In Activist Websites
Digital texts present significant challenges to technical communicators in terms of genre and persona. Because of the ubiquity of electronic media, we increasingly embrace digital formats over print-based documents. As a result, technical communicators must now devise the means to cue audiences to …
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Large Scale Online Aggregation Via Distributed Systems
… topic models has been driven by the explosion of electronic, text based data that are available for analysis. From web pages to emails to microblogs, text-based data are everywhere. However, not all electronically-available natural language corpora are text-based. In my thesis, I consider the …
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Outeurskapidentifikasie en mikroblogs : 'n eksploratiewe forensiese analise in 'n digitale era
… is truly speaking and can the author of a short electronic text (in Afrikaans) be identified? Against the broad background of the digital era, this explorative forensic analysis investigated the possibility of identifying the authors of microblog entries (on Twitter) while also attempting to lay …