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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"encyclopedic"”.
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Extraction and representation of encyclopedic knowledge from a dictionary
… theory to the representation of world or encyclopedic knowledge. The tool is designed to extract such knowledge from dictionary entries and to represent it in a network of frames. An application needing encyclopedic knowledge would rely on some separate utility program to draw information …
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The Trouble with Knowing: Wikipedian consensus and the political design of encyclopedic media
… how utopian and impossible desires of encyclopedic media have left a wake of unresolvable epistemological crises. In a 2011 survey of editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, it was reported that 87 per cent of Wikipedians identified as men. This statistic flew in the face of …
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An encyclopedic index of commonly used etudes catalogued and organized pedagogically by technical difficulty
… in a musical setting. Nevertheless, without an encyclopedic memory, a teacher may find it difficult to locate appropriate etudes for an individual student with a specific technical problem.The charts from this study are designed to be used as an aid in locating and assigning etudes to students …
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Great Conversations: Systems, Complexity, and Epic Encyclopedic Narratives in Contemporary American Fiction 1960-2007
Encyclopedic narratives, as conceptualized by Edward Mendelson, "attempt to render the full range of knowledge and beliefs of a national culture, while identifying the ideological perspectives from which that culture shapes and interprets its knowledge." The development of system paradigms in the …
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Finding the Public: Models of Interaction Between Curatorial and Education Departments in Three American Encyclopedic Museums
… curatorial and education departments in three encyclopedic art museums across the United States, in order to better understand how meaningful collaboration can be fostered between these cultural representatives, in order to most effectively build relationships with the museum’s constituents.</p>
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The Encyclopedic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rudolfine Kunstkammer as Expressions of Power
… knowledge. The physical configuration of such encyclopedic projects could be found in the museums created to organize and assimilate the explosion of knowledge experienced during this period.This thesis addresses the social significance of accumulating an encyclopedic collection in the form of …
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An Architecture for Collaborative Math and Science Digital Libraries
… and scientific content, and how it applies an encyclopedic organizational style. I also describe how Noosphere frees the digital library maintainer from a heavy administrative burden by implementing the design pattern of zero content administration. Finally, I discuss evidence showing that …
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Encyclopædia Mundi: A digital experience
… how we socially attribute authority to existing encyclopedic models, as well as the future role of artificial intelligence in contributing to our understanding of knowledge, truth, and reality.
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"Live as Worthy Citizens": The πολιτεύομαι Metaphor in Philippians
… Christian responsibility by evoking an encyclopedic conceptual frame animated by both the Greco-Roman and Jewish backgrounds. In other words, the πολιτεύομαι metaphor in Philippians supplies a familiar cultural lens through which Paul exhorts the Philippians.
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Why I Killed the Draft Horse: The Golden Bough, Robert Frost, and "Progress"
… of ceremonial sacrifice that undergirds Frazer's encyclopedic study of world culture and, by performing ceremony as a kind of modem poesis, Frost complicates the hero/sacrificial object role and critiques the progressive ideology that grounds Frazer's account to fashion a troubling epic for modern …
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English Goal Infinitives
… Knowledge of goal relations is part of the encyclopedic knowledge that language users acquire through observation of situations. Given that the grammar represents a speaker's knowledge of a language, an analysis in which constraints on modified phrases and interpretations of implicit …
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Pragmatic referring functions as Montague semantic operators
… all semantic information would be regarded as encyclopedic world-knowledge.
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"Knowing a thing is ""a thing"": The use of acoustic features in multiword expression extraction"
… titles in Wikipedia, a massive, freely available encyclopedic ontology of entities and phenomena. By incorporating prosodic features into a model that distinguishes between multiword expressions that are found in Wikipedia titles and those that are not, we see increases in classifier performance …
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Textual curators and writing machines: authorial agency in encyclopedias, print to digital.
… considerations of the poetic author, the encyclopedic author demonstrates a different form of authorial agency that operates within strict genre conventions and does not place a premium on originality. This and related variations challenge contemporary ideas concerning the divide between …
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Music in Haiti: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide
… the sources for this guide will be drawn from encyclopedic entries, theses and dissertations, articles, essays, and discographies, and is designed to provide a comprehensive look at the extant research on Haitian music.
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Human-competitive automatic topic indexing
… on statistical, semantic, domain-specific and encyclopedic knowledge. They are combined using a machine learning algorithm that models human indexing behavior from examples. This approach is evaluated by comparing automatically generated topics to those assigned by professional indexers, and by …
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Reference in Udi narrative discourse
… are worth the effort of creating an enriched encyclopedic entry, since they can indicate the most relevant characters and objects throughout the narratives. These forms appear to motivate the reader to create space in those entries for the many facets of a participant's role or …
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Anarchy in Critical Dystopias: An Anatomy of Rebellion
… experiments. It is not an attempt to produce an encyclopedic review of the emergence or function of anarchism in critical dystopias. My objective is not so ambitious; my aim is to plot the evolution of each rebellion within its own context. In the end, I hope to broaden an understanding of …
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Homer and the Art of Performative Technical Communication
… was used in primary oral societies as encyclopedic knowledge, one that was taught from the primary educators of early Hellas—the poets—to their audiences. The results of this study suggest that the boundaries of the discourse map of technical communication be expanded to include not …
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Kate Brew Vaughn: Marketing Domestic Expertise
… professional life with newspaper accounts, encyclopedic entries, archival documents, census records and an assortment of publications written by her, this paper explores the equivocal meaning of an expert within the domain of home economics.</p> <p>This thesis situates Vaughn within the …
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