Information Processing Equipment (Book Review)

Book Review: Discourse Processing by Manfred Stede

Discourse is coming in from the cold. After years of being ignored by researchers in other areas of computational linguistics and language technology, many of these same researchers are beginning to think that their own work could benefit from treating text as more than just a bag of sentences. That is, they are beginning to think that discourse offers some low-hanging fruit—achievable improvem...

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Book review Logic and Visual Information

Researchers in the elds of philosophy, logic, computer science, and formal semantics are beginning to ask interesting questions concerning graphical representation. In addition to being a primary mode of human communication, such representations have been used even in the teaching of logic eg. Venn diagrams, or the Hyperproof" system. If the observation that the visual presentation of informati...

Book Review: Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures: Towards

This book, Creating Spatial Infor mation Infrastructures: Towards the Spatial Semantic W eb, contains a collection of articles ar ound the theme of the semantic aspects of Spatial Infor mation Infrastructures (SIIs). SIIs ar e an extension to the mor e commonly ter med Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs), with the addition of the semantic aspects that turn data into information. The book has it...

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