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The Desktop Computer as a Network Participant

A desktop personal computer can be greatly extended in usefulness by attaching it to a local area network and implementing a full set of network protocols, just as one might provide for a mainframe computer. Such protocols are a set of tools that allow the desktop computer not just to access data elsewhere, but to participate in the computing milieu much more intensely. There are two challenges...

The interactive researcher as a virtual participant: A Habermasian interpretation

This article explores the role of the interactive researcher by drawing on Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action to develop the concept of virtual participant. An ideal interactive research project is used to explore the issues faced by interactive researchers in three phases – initial, implementation and conclusion. In each phase, an interactive research project is used to demonstrat...

Participant Subjectivity and Involvement as a Basis for Discourse Segmentation

We propose a framework for analyzing episodic conversational activities in terms of expressed relationships between the participants and utterance content. We test the hypothesis that linguistic features which express such properties, e.g. tense, aspect, and person deixis, are a useful basis for automatic intentional discourse segmentation. We present a novel algorithm and test our hypothesis o...

Viewing the child as a participant within context

Library of Congress Classification as linked data

In 2009 and in 2011, the Library of Congress made two of its largestauthority files –Subject Headings and Names available as linked data via LC’slinked data service, id.loc.gov. Both are offered in MADS/RDF and SKOS. It isLC’s objective, in 2012, to publish another of its largest authority files as linkeddata: LC Classification. However, whereas the source records for Subject He...