The article tackles Jan Brzechwa’s first works addressed to children. author presents the moment collections Tańcowała igła z nitką and Kaczka Dziwaczka were created. primary aim of is show how children’s literature collected in above mentioned books received by educators literary critics. Another objective study depict these became a part national culture, using selected examples. achieved thi...

The founder of Phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, was one the great critics contemporary reality and its apparent scientific success. He lived paradoxes XX century: a century which most advanced in terms scientific-technical development and, at same time, bloodiest darkest human history: how is this contradiction possible? Husserl ´s answer that process cultural decline, had already been forged, si...

This paper describes the part of recommender system designed for movies’ critics recognition. Such a system allows the automatic collection, evaluation and rating of critics and opinions of the movies. First the system searches and retrieves texts supposed to be movies’ reviews from the Internet. Subsequently the system carries out an evaluation and rating of movies’ critics. Finally the system...

Historical corpora are important resources for different areas. Philology, Human Language Technology, Literary Studies, History, and Lexicography are some that benefit from them. However, compiling historical corpora is different from compiling contemporary corpora. Corpus designers have to deal with several characteristics inherent in historical texts, such as: absence of a spelling standard, ...

The English cognate object (CO) construction like laugh a nervous laugh raises intriguing analytic and empirical questions. They include (a) what kind of verb licenses the CO, (b) what is the grammatical status of the CO (including its argumenthood), and (c) what are the semantic/pragmatic contributions of the construction? In answering these questions and to see real usages of the construction...

Software size is an important measurement for the objective evaluation of software engineering characteristics such as productivity and quality. Currently, Function Point Analysis (FPA) is emerging as a credible technique that allows software professionals to measure the external functional size of software systems. While FPA has gained significant momentum, it does have its critics. Some criti...

Food has long served as a form of cultural capital, and historically it was an elite few food critics who held the power to ascribe status to dining experiences. The rise of social and digital media arguably allows anybody to adopt the role of critic. Lowered barriers associated with digital technologies, coupled with the contemporary ‘foodatainment’ boom have opened the floodgates for amateurs...