10.5937/kultura1443118m = Zadie Smith's ironic narrator: The many truths of multiculturalism

identity and multiculturalism in zadie smith’s the autograph man

this article focuses on zadie smith’s the autograph manin anattempt to see whether smith is for the multiculturalist discourse orcriticizes it. to this end, two major themes of “identity” and “space” areexamined. it is argued that smith offers a counter-narrative to oppose ratherthan support multiculturalism. in fact, what is known as multiculturalistaspects of smith’s work is just a mere refle...

How Many Different "John Smiths", and Who Are They?

In this work we propose three unsupervised measures to automatically identify the number of distinct entities a given ambiguous name refers to in a corpus. We experiment with 22 artificially created name conflations and observe that the measure (PK2) formulated as the ratio of two successive clustering criterion function values outperforms the other two measures. We also describe a method to as...

Virtual Storytelling: Emotions for the narrator

The development of virtual story-telling is an ever ongoing process. As long as it does not perform on the same level as a human storyteller, there is room for improvement. The Virtual Storyteller, a project of the HMI department of the University of Twente, uses a Text-to-Speech application that creates synthetic speech from text input. It is definitely not a trivial matter to make synthetic s...

The paradox of indiscriminate multiculturalism.

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MULTIPLIER ANALYSIS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF MANY PRODUCERS AND MANY CONSUMERS OF THE SAM FOR THE IRANIAN ECONOMY