Referential Communication Tasks offers, in a small format (125 pages), a general survey of experimental settings and scientific background on communication studies centered on specific activities in which the speakers are observed for their ability to achieve tasks rather than solely for their linguistic productions. It thus offers a basic and introductory insight to research and experiments th...

ation of many strings. Rule-based systems can do better , but the rules are based on years of s tudy by phoneticians, and are not only complex, but are supplemented by large lists of lexical exceptions. Presumably a connectionist system that could be taught rules as well as learn from example would outperform both versions; and that is what a human seems to b e a system that can be taught rules...

And from this it follows that weak generative capacity, as usually conceived, cannot be the right notion of complexity to study in connection with human language (even if it were to be measured by a yardstick different from the Chomsky hierarchy). Important as the three papers I have mentioned are, my favorite is the previously unpublished---and, this time, brand new-pape r by Savitch on contex...

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 ...

Pleurodesis is a definitive management strategy in malignant pleural effusion, its history briefly described, and narrative review made about indication, patient selection, response predictors benefits.

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The author selected fourteen important acupuncture and moxibustion books in history, briefly introduced the 
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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...