The rapidity with which edition after edition of this book follows its predecessor goes to prove that it meets with the approval of Scots graduates. It is a most excellent compendium, and very little is left out. It can be safely recommended to the student of any University, provided the clinical teaching therein is good. In obstetrics it is the sense of touch and understanding that has to be c...

W.L. Miller Chris Allen Department of Politics University of Edinburgh No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland 191480. London: Edward Arnold, 1981, 182pp The End of British Politics? Scots and English Political Behaviour in the Seventies. Oxford: Clarendon, 1981, 28lpp J. Bochel,D. Denver, The Referendum Experience: Scotland 1979. & A. Macartney (eds.)Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 198!...

historians seek to learn the nature of the young Scots doctors who came in droves to England throughout the hundred years straddling the first World War, this autobiography will be essential reading. When Sydney Laird's generation was at its most clinically active, a venereologist was jokingly defined as a doctor with many acquaintances but few friends. The joke stops here. My abiding memory of...

Numerical data mining tools are generally quite robust but only provide coarse-granularity results; such tools can handle very large inputs. Computational linguistic tools are able to provide fine-granularity results but are less robust; such tools, often semi-automatic, usually handle relatively short inputs. A synergistic combination of both types of tools is the basis of our hybrid approach....

Existence of automatic writing assistance tools such as spell and grammar checker/corrector can help in increasing electronic texts with higher quality by removing noises and cleaning the sentences. Different kinds of errors in a text can be categorized into spelling, grammatical and real-word errors. In this article, the concepts of an automatic grammar checker for Persian (Farsi) language, is...

We introduce a new method for unsupervised knowledge-based word sense disambiguation (WSD) based on a resource that links two types of sense-aware lexical networks: one is induced from a corpus using distributional semantics, the other is manually constructed. The combination of two networks reduces the sparsity of sense representations used for WSD. We evaluate these enriched representations w...

The paper discusses the development of rhetorical analyses of political addresses from classical antiquity to modern political communication. A specific genre, the ‘epideictic address’, is described in detail. It concerns addresses by representative persons. Most epideictic addresses turn out to be ‘hybrid’ texts because they combine an orientation towards (rhetorical-political) persuasion with...

The wide use of abbreviations in modern texts poses interesting challenges and opportunities in the field of NLP. In addition to their dynamic nature, abbreviations are highly polysemous with respect to regular words. Technologies that exhibit some level of language understanding may be adversely impacted by the presence of abbreviations. This paper addresses two related problems: (1) expansion...