With the explosion in the quantity of online information in recent years, automatic abstracting and indexing has received renewed interest and a number of promising approaches have emerged. The goal of this book is to present a complete description of current indexing and abstracting techniques in the context of the underlying linguistic and statistical knowledge. The book has three parts: the ...

Music, it has often been suggested, is a form of language. If this is true, perhaps some of the techniques of computational linguistics might be profitably applied to musical issues. In Computers and Musical Style, composer David Cope describes a new way of analyzing musical style, by using computer pattern matching to identify characteristic motives, or short sequences of musical intervals. Co...

In Les linguistiques de corpus, newcomers as well as experts in the field will find a very interesting, well-written, and concise survey of corpus linguistics. The book gives a good overview of the multiple methods used and the problems involved in the creation and the annotation of a corpus. It also presents proposed applications for these corpora. The authors do not relate their own work, but...

The central idea of this "article" is that certain developments such as extreme simplification, the politicisation of medical ethics, the "normative industry" and "empirethics", may seriously threaten the (future) practice of medical ethics. 25th of November 2025, Rotterdam, Europe THOSE WERE THE DAYS: LOOKING BACK AT THE FUTURE Nowadays, in 2025, there are no more conferences. There is, of cou...

Herpesviruses possess large DNA genomes which contain from approximately 80 to 200 genes. These viral genes are divided into two groups based on whether they are essential or nonessential (dispensable) for virus growth in cell culture: the essential gene products include a set of replication proteins which accomplish the viral DNA replication, while the dispensable gene products include those i...

Verbmobil is a project sponsored by the German government, whose aim is to develop a translation system for face-to-face speech dialogue. This book is the report on a preliminary study of the project conducted by CSLI, Stanford University. The contents of the book are as follows: Chapter 1 contains introductory material; Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 are devoted to describing the current state-of-the...