HERACLITUS’ DISCURSIVE AUTHORITY

In the Footsteps of Heraclitus

Methodology is epistemology: the way of studying a phenomenon depends on the view of that phenomenon. In attempting to avoid anthropomorphism endowing or attributing human form and especially feelings and abilities to animals we have developed a particular mode of finding out which we term science. In this mode we feel it is appropriate to be 'objective' that is to remove our own feelings, thou...

Language, Identity, and the Production of Authority in New Discursive Contexts in Pohnpei, Micronesia

Implementation of Delayed Updates in Heraclitus

The Heraclitus languages are database programming languages that give prominence to \delayed updates" or deltas, which are rst-class values representing sets of proposed updates, such as inserts and deletes, to the underlying persistent store. Deltas can be created, inspected and combined without committing to the given updates. Deltas are useful for realizing advanced database features that ma...

Applications of Heraclitus in Telecommunications Information Processing

In many telecommunications information processing applications it is useful, and often necessary, to create and access multiple hypothetical states. These might correspond to future states re ecting pending updates, or hypothetical alternative states that arise in the exploration of possible solutions. This paper shows how the Heraclitus family of database programming languages can be applied t...

Discursive Sentence Compression

This paper presents a method for automatic summarization by deleting intra-sentence discourse segments. First, each sentence is divided into elementary discourse units and, then, less informative segments are deleted. To analyze the results, we have set up an annotation campaign, thanks to which we have found interesting aspects regarding the elimination of discourse segments as an alternative ...