Andrew Peacock. “Firdawsi’s Shahnama in its Ghaznavid Context”

Context and Computer Composition - Andrew R. Brown

Ê The composer, as creative artist, is an interesting case for the study of computer usage. They typically work deliberately against the grain of convention, are renowned for persisting with awkward and tedious tasks, and produce works not so much with the intent of stabilising data or a situation but, instead, structuring sound to perturb or surprise the recipients expectations to some degree....

Peacock spiders

How has the environment at the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme influenced your work? We develop and use high resolution, dynamic, quantitative readouts of behavior. This is a real strength at the institute and strongly resonates with me due to the approach I developed while working on the cell biology of trachea morphogenesis. For me, biology is about regulating dynamic processes and if you...

Peacock flies

A quick guide on peacock flies, a species of insect where, unusually, both males and females perform dances apparently to attract mates.

A Bayesian hybrid method for context - sensitive spelling correction Andrew

Two classes of methods have been shown to be useful for resolving lexical ambiguity. The rst relies on the presence of particular words within some distance of the ambiguous target word; the second uses the pattern of words and partof-speech tags around the target word. These methods have complementary coverage: the former captures the lexical \atmosphere" (discourse topic, tense, etc.), while ...

Professor J H Peacock