The Spotlight That Saw Everything

For the Lexicon that Has Everything

This paper argues that it is impossible to separate lexical and encyclopedic knowledge and describes an attempt to build a large lexical database that contains the range of information needed to make a parser or a text generation system interpret and use words and phrases correctly. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Any natural language processing system needs both knowledge about words and knowledge a...

Not everything that counts can be counted; not everything that can be counted counts.

Measuring research impact: not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted

A Spotlight on Spotlight

In this paper, we have made an attempt to take a look under the hood of Spotlight and understand some of the following questions amongst others: • How well-integrated is Spotlight with the file system? • How reliable is the interface between Spotlight and the file system? • Is live update a myth or a reality under heavy file system activity? Based on our experiments, it seems that Spotlight is ...

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