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Progressive Muscular Dystrophy (Erb.)

Vita: Friedrich Wilhelm Wiener

We report on the life and work of F. Wiener, whom we confused with N. Wiener in a previous article.

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Figure 3. "Scheele Haus," the birthplace (1742) of Scheele, is the center building, located at Fiihrstrafie 23, Stra/sund, Gennany (N 54° 18.99; E 13° 05.56). This building is elegantly marked with a plaque and a small exhibit inside. The view is eastward, downhill toward the Baltic Sea only 200 meters away and from which cold winds often blow up the street. Occasional plaques in the city datin...

ERB-1094.fm

The evaluative character of a word is called its semantic orientation. A positive semantic orientation implies desirability (e.g., “honest”, “intrepid”) and a negative semantic orientation implies undesirability (e.g., “disturbing”, “superfluous”). This paper introduces a simple algorithm for unsupervised learning of semantic orientation from extremely large corpora. The method involves issuing...

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