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Getting to Know Your Corpus

Corpora are not easy to get a handle on. The usual way of getting to grips with text is to read it, but corpora are mostly too big to read (and not designed to be read). We show, with examples, how keyword lists (of one corpus vs. another) are a direct, practical and fascinating way to explore the characteristics of corpora, and of text types. Our method is to classify the top one hundred keywo...

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for dermatologists: What shall we do when we don’t know what to do?

What shall we do when we have done everything we could for the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but were not successful? What shall we do when there is no definite treatment for a patient? What shall we do when we have no diagnosis or treatment for a patient? Some useful suggestions are presented here to get rid of these situations.

Getting to know your production response time

An important aspect of managing performance is managing response time extremes, particularly transactions with longer response times. To effectively manage the extremes requires an understanding of response time distributions. In this paper response time distributions obtained from production are analyzed. The results demonstrate that response times are not normally distributed. Techniques to a...

What you need to know when you can't find your UNIX system administrator

If you use UNIX, you know that it can be a technically challenging environment. And if you're like most users, you have a job to do aside from exploring your operating system-like analyzing that hot new stock, running...