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Textiles is one the nation’s oldest industries, dating back to be beginning of the American industrial revolution in the 1790s. Despite perceptions of the decline of U.S. textile manufacturing in the face of offshore competition, the industry remains one of the largest, most diverse, and dynamic segments of the U.S. manufacturing sector. This manual represents a comprehensive history of the U.S...

Typological discourse analysis is the study of those factors that affect the choice of constructions in a language, taking the surrounding discourse context into account. Typically, texts from a large number of languages are analyzed quantitatively in order to discover statistical regularities between functional parameters affecting the choice of alternations. Examples of alternations are activ...

Seeking to develop the first satisfying universal definition of basic grammatical units of the major syntactic categories such as "noun," "verb," and "adjective" and of the principal grammatical relations, "subject," "object," and "oblique," William Croft employs the methods of cross-linguistic or typological analysis and cognitive linguistics. Drawing evidence from a wide variety of languages,...

vengeance is developed in order to oblige the debtors to return their debts and to support those creditors who, for administration of justice, cannot deliver any acceptable document to the machinery of justice. the exercise of vengeance is applicable, sometimes by taking back the corpus of usurped property and some other times by taking an intervenient exchange. religious jurists have different...

In a career spanning five decades, Patrick Suppes has pursued a unique approach to the problems of language and learning. This book, with Colleen Crangle, is a reprise of much of the work on the philosophy of language. As the title indicates, the underlying model is of a robot that is to receive instructions (and later also instruction) in ordinary language. The philosophizing is made concrete ...

This book is a diverse collection of ten presentations given at an International Summer School on Information Extraction in Rome, 1997. The goal of information extraction (IE) is selective, task-driven interpretation of text narrative in order to fill out templates with information about a particular scenario. I was disappointed to find that only five of the articles were actually about IE rese...