Inessentially Speaking (Is There Politics after Postmodernism?)

Speaking Dada : The Politics of Language

My intention in this paper is to explore how Dada's internationalism can be related to Dada's radical work in poetic language. Dada's internationalism is often seen to reflect the fact that its groups were made up of displaced, exiled individuals. In February 1918 Richard Huelsenbeck stated in his " Erste Dadarede in Deutschland " : " Der Dadaismus war notgedrungen ein internationales Produkt. ...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

Vitamin D: Is There a New Era?

  Background: In recent decades, much interest has been focused on investigating new roles of vitamin D in human body beyond the mineral-ion homeostasis. Methods: By searching medical databases such as PubMed, over 16000 articles were found which have been published since 2000 on novel aspects of vitamin D in health and diseases. Results: Of great interest was the effects of vitamin D on ...

Is There Natural Language after Data Bases?

Is There Natural Language After Data Bases?

1. Why Not Data Base Query? The undisputed favorite application for natural language interfaces has been data base query. Why? The reasons range from the relative simplicity of the task, including shallow semantic processing, to the potential real-world utility of the resultant system. Because of such reasons, the data base query task was an excellent paradigmatic problem for computational ling...