A work written over a decade ago maintained that there had been limited study of factional politics<l. This is most certainly the case as far as the Scottish National Party is concerned. Indeed, little has been written on the party itself, with the plethora of books and articles which were published in the 1970s focussing on the National movement rather than the party. During the 1980s journali...

Paralleling the development of the information society, European Union institutions are making more and more information available electronically. The progress of this process is reviewed. It is a process which contributes to the openness of the EU institutions. How effective are electronic media in providing access to information? It is concluded that the journalistic and library professions w...

al diffusion of political ideas, ideologies, and practices, there has still been relatively little exploration of the extent to which debates in national news media about similar social problems have come to resemble one another, as well as the causes for such convergence or lack thereof. Some studies provide evidence of gradual, if uneven, convergence in certain journalistic practices and aspe...

Information extraction systems need a previous processing step in order to recognize coreferential elements, such as personal name variants. This paper has two aims: the first is to describe the main types of personal name coreference found in encyclopedic and journalistic texts in Spanish. Furthermore, we introduce an algorithm that solves most coreferential links between personal name variant...

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this research was conducted to examine whether there was a significant difference between the quality of translations produced by translation students who used bilingual (english to farsi) dictionaries with that of those using monolingual (english to english) dictionaries. to this end, 78 senior undergraduate students of english translation took part in a piloted english proficiency test, 60 of...