Cataloging Machine-Readable Data Files: An Interpretive Manual (Book Review)

Appraisal Strategies for Machine-Readable Case Files

Book Review: Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective

When several good books on a subject are available the pedagogical style of a book becomes more than a secondary consideration. This is particularly true in the case of mathematical and algorithmic subjects such as machine learning, where the level of formal rigor is a consideration. Peter Naur spent a portion of his career considering this issue. As the ’N’ in the Backus-Naur formalism (BNF), ...

Book Review: Manual of Childhood Infections

The fourth edition of this manual appears nearly five years after the third edition was published. It has been updated and re-written with the aim of improving the evidence-based management of pediatric infections. Emerging infections, nosocomial infections and antimicrobial resistance are covered in new chapters and updated existing ones. The new edition is also aimed at increasing the interna...

Machine-Readable Dictionaries

The papers in this panel consider machine-readable dictionaries from several perspectives: research in computational linguistics and computational lexicology, the development of tools for improving accessibility, the design of lexical reference systems for educational purposes, and applications of machine-readable dictionaries in information science contexts. As background and by way of introdu...

Machine-Readable Dictionary Headwords

(5) The idea behind dictionaries for machine processing and that behind dictionaries that people can thumb through are di erent, so we have to be aware that di erent terms are used. It is often best to include in machine dictionaries even terms that are easy for people to understand and to break down into their key elements. For example, :n6HCf (on duty, at work) and F17nKv (the end of the same...