Editorial: Jargon, Eponyms, and Just Plain Obfuscation

Cross-, Intra-, and Just Plain Cultural

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Linguistically debatable or just plain wrong?

In linguistic annotation projects, we typically develop annotation guidelines to minimize disagreement. However, in this position paper we question whether we should actually limit the disagreements between annotators, rather than embracing them. We present an empirical analysis of part-of-speech annotated data sets that suggests that disagreements are systematic across domains and to a certain...

Elder abuse and financial exploitation: unlawful and just plain awful!

File-Sharing: Creative Destruction or just Plain Destruction?

The ‘sharing’ of sound recordings over the Internet is the newest controversy in a long running battle between copyright owners and copying technologies. In order to provide some context, perspective and background, this paper examines the short history of file-sharing, the longer history of record sales, various explanations for the change in record sales and some analysis of the economics of ...

Competing DNS Roots: Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?

The Internet Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical name space that enables the assignment of unique, mnemonic identifiers to Internet hosts and the consistent mapping of these names to IP addresses. The root of the domain name system is the top of the hierarchy and is currently managed by a quasi-private centralized regulatory authority, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numb...