Sunday, 9 Mar 2008
Smith, L. C. (1981). ‘Memex’ as an image of potentiality in information retrieval research and development In , Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp. 345-369). Cambridge, England: Butterworth & Co.
Linda cited this article when talking about her research on a panel discussion we [...]
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Some things read this week, 9 - 15 March 2008
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Some things read this week, 27 January - 2 February 2008
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Sunday, 27 Jan 2008
Nonmonotonic Logic. Leora Morgenstern. MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
Suggested by fellow classmate Tom Dousha for additional elucidation for Ontologies Development. Highly understandable resource for non-experts in logic, although having a basic grasp probably helps.
Sunday - Wednesday, 27 - 30 Jan 2008
Harris, Roy, and International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and [...]
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Some things read this week, 20 - 26 January 2008
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Sunday, 20 Jan 2008
Hjørland, B., & Albrechtsen, H. (1995). Toward a New Horizon in Information Science: Domain-Analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46, 400-425.
Re-read for bibliography.
Monday, 21 Jan 2008
Liddy, Elizabeth D. “Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery.” In Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, and University [...]
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Some things read this week, 13 - 19 January 2007
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Sunday, 13 Jan 2008
Toolan, Michael. 1997. A Few Words on Telementation. Language Sciences 19, no. 1:79-91.
I had read this before (28 Oct 07) as it is in: Harris, Roy, and George Wolf, eds. Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader. 1st ed, Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1998.
Sunday - Monday, 13 - 14 Jan 2008
Harris, Roy, ed. 2002. [...]
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Some things read this week, 30 December 2007 - 5 January 2008
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Sunday, 30 Dec - Tuesday, 1 Jan
Toolan, Michael J. 1996. Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.
Finished Ch. 4: Further Principles of Integrational Linguistics, or, On Not Losing Sight of the Language User
Monday, 31 Dec 2007 New Years’ Eve
Harris, Roy. 2005. The Semantics of Science. London: Continuum.
Got this for [...]
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Christmas visit with family and friends
December 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments
I went to Falls Church, Virginia to visit family and friends 20 - 29 December. I got home yesterday evening. Drove to Bloomington (1 hour) and flew through Detroit to Dulles and back again.
Going out of Bloomington vs. Champaign is about $150 cheaper round trip and parking is free, which is a substantial savings. BMI [...]
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Books Read in 2007
December 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Late last year I decided to participate in a reading challenge (2007 TBR) that I found at Joy Weese Moll’s blog, Wanderings of an online librarian. I generally don’t do these sorts of things but when I had looked back over 2006 at the hundreds of article I had read I found that I had [...]
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Some things read this week, 23 - 29 December 2007
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This has been a very light week due to my visiting relatives and friends in the Washington, DC area.
Toolan, Michael J. 1996. Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.
Finish Ch. 1: On Inscribed or Literal Meaning (21-25 Dec)
Ch. 2: Metaphor (26 - 29 Dec)
Ch. 3: Intentionality and Coming into [...]
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Some things read this week, 18 - 24 November 2007
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Sunday, 18 Nov
Norman, Richard. “Holy Communion.” Eurozine [First published in New Humanist 6/2007].
Discusses New Wave Atheism and how it is aggressively antagonistic to religion, which is the wrong way to proceed. I most certainly agree with this.
When recent books by Dawkins, Hitchens and others began coming out I was excited at first. It was good [...]
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Some things read this week, 28 October - 3 November 2007
November 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Sunday, 28 Oct
Davis, Hayley, and Talbot J. Taylor, eds. Redefining Linguistics. London: Routledge, 1990.
Ch. 4: Talbot J. Taylor. Normativity and Linguistic Form. (Sat-Sun)
Ch.5: Paul Hopper. The Emergence of the Category ‘Proper Name’ in Discourse. (Sun)
The Taylor chapter was particularly excellent.
Zwicky, Arnold M. and Ann D. Zwicky. “Register as a Dimension of Linguistic Variation.” In [...]
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