Beyond Text

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Moving Beyond Text

Originally published in 2003, this article presents one of the first attempts to provide a systematic summary of the new concept of cultural technique. It is, in essence, an extended checklist aimed at overcoming the textualist bias of traditional cultural theory by highlighting what is elided by this bias. On the one hand, to speak of cultural techniques redirects our attention to material and...

Text Summarization: News and Beyond

Redundancy in large text collections, such as the web, creates both problems and opportunities for natural language systems. On the one hand, the presence of numerous sources conveying the same information causes difficulties for end users of search engines and news providers; they must read the same information over and over again. On the other hand, redundancy can be exploited to identify imp...

Retrieval Beyond the Text Document

With the expansion of the Internet, searching for information goes beyond the boundary of physical libraries. Millions of documents of various media types, such as text, image, video, audio, graphics, and animation, are available around the world and linked by the Internet. Unfortunately, the state of the art of search engines for media types other than text lags far behind their text counterpa...

Beyond NER: Towards Semantics in Clinical Text

While clinical text NLP systems have become very effective in recognizing named entities in clinical text and mapping them to standardized terminologies in the normalization process, there remains a gap in the ability of extractors to combine entities together into a complete semantic representation of medical concepts that contain multiple attributes each of which has its own set of allowed na...