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In his article "Theories of Opiate Addiction in the Early Works of Burroughs and Trocchi" Richard English discusses William S. Burroughs's and Alexander Trocchi's representations of opiate addiction with special reference to their early writings. English examines the concept of homo heroin that can be attributed to Burroughs and lists and expounds the qualities he adduces. Among these are: immo...

165 In this brief contribution, I take up three issues under the headings respectively, leverage, linkage and ‘economy’. The first might be called the current political economy of intellectual production; it asks the question what do social scientists do to affect reality. In the second part of the paper I try to alert us to the slipperiness of key institutions and concepts; it cannot be assume...

Given the increasing number of neologisms in biomedicine (names of genes, diseases, molecules, etc.), the rate of acronyms used in literature also increases. Existing acronym dictionaries cannot keep up with the rate of new creations. Thus, discovering and disambiguating acronyms and their expanded forms are essential aspects of text mining and terminology management. We present a method for cl...

This paper focusses on grammatical productivity as constitutive property of a model of dynamic morphology (in contrast to overlapping static morphology, which is unproductive). Grammatical productivity is located in the potential system of grammar (here exemplified with inflectional morphology) as opposed to type frequency belonging to the level of language as social institution and to token fr...

In this paper, we describe lexical needs for spoken and written French surface processing, like automatic text correction, speech recognition and synthesis. We present statistical observations made on a vocabulary compiled from real texts like articles. These texts have been used for building a recorded speech database called BREF. Machine Communication), this database is intended for dictation...

Concept extraction is an increasingly popular topic in deep text analysis. Concepts are individual content elements. Their extraction offers thus an overview of the content of the material from which they were extracted. In the case of domain-specific material, concept extraction boils down to term identification. The most straightforward strategy for term identification is a look up in existin...

This study aims to show that frequency of occurrence over time for technical terms and keyphrases differs from general language terms in the sense that technical terms and keyphrases show a strong tendency to be recent coinage, and that this difference can be exploited for the automatic identification and extraction of technical terms and keyphrases. To this end, we propose two features extract...

In this paper, a novel system for the automatic identification and conjugation of Spanish verb neologisms is presented. The paper describes a rule-based algorithm consisting of six steps which are taken to determine whether a new verb is regular or not, and to establish the rules that the verb should follow in its conjugation. The method was evaluated on 4,307 new verbs and its performance foun...

While ISSI was founded in 1993, scientometrics and bibliometrics are now at least half a century old. Indeed, the field can be traced to early quantitative studies in the early 20 Century. In the thirties, it evolved to the “science of science.” The publication of J. D. Bernal’s Social Function of Science in 1939 was a key transition point but the field lay dormant until after World War II, whe...