Another ‘Waste Land’: Gabriela Mistral in 1922

Clustering Voices in The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot’s modernist poem The Waste Land is often interpreted as collection of voices which appear multiple times throughout the text. Here, we investigate whether we can automatically cluster existing segmentations of the text into coherent, expert-identified characters. We show that clustering The Waste Land is a fairly difficult task, though we can do much better than random baselines, par...

Gabriela Wiosna-Sałyga

Grover Smith: On "The Waste Land"

The Waste Land summarizes the Grail legend, not precisely in the usual order, but retaining the principal incidents and adapting them to a modern setting. Eliot's indebtedness both to Sir James Frazer and to Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance (in which book he failed to cut pages 138-39 and 142-43 of his copy) is acknowledged in his notes. Jessie L. Weston's thesis is that the Grail lege...

Waste in a land of plenty - Solid waste generation and management in the US

In the frontier mentality that has evolved over the centuries in America, the abundance of available space has been a reassuring constant. When things get too crowded or too uncomfortable, there is always greener grass to move to, rebuild on and start all over again. This has also been the story of waste disposal in the US: there has been boundless room to grow, with plenty of extra land to dum...

MASTER Mistral 2 to FACTS

In cooperation with Philips, the company Frontier Design has developed a system that synthesizes a DSP architecture, starting from an algorithmic description of the behaviour of the processor. This synthesis system is called Mistral2. Code generation is part of the process of generating assembly code for processors. This includes resource assignment, register binding and scheduling. A software ...