This book is intended as a resource for people who are interested in using computers to
help process natural language. A natural language refers to any language spoken by
humans, either currently (e.g., English, Chinese, Spanish) or in the past (e.g., Latin,
ancient Greek, Sanskrit). Annotation refers to the process...
In the time of Duke Huan of Ch’i [the position of] the son of Heaven had
become humble and weak, while the feudal lords used their energies in attacking
[one another]. The Southern Yi and Northern Ti engaged the Central
States in battle, and the continued existence of the Central States seemed [to
hang by] a thin thread...
CSS3 is the latest version of Cascading Style Sheets, the language that in the hands of a skilled designer turns
the ugly duckling of unadorned HTML into the gracious swan of a sophisticated web page. Some web designers
will tell you dismissively that CSS3 won’t be ready for years. In one sense, they’re right. Instead of...
In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people.
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been branded “public enemy number one” by some in the United States for posting material on the World Wide...
Grammar is a very old field of study. Did you know that the
sentence was first divided into subject and verb by Plato,
the famed philosopher from ancient Greece? That was
about 2,400 years ago! Ever since then, students all over
the world have found it worthwhile to study the structure
of words and sentences. Why? Because...
The first of these two volumes might be entitled the "German Conquest of
Western Europe," and the second the "Age of Justinian." The first covers more
than one hundred and twenty years, the second somewhat less than fifty. This
disparity is a striking illustration of the fact that...
Hero of Alexandria had a great idea. In the first century ad, Hero’s design of the fi rst steam engine was ingenious and workable. Indeed, classical scholars have argued that it could have been combined with other inventions of the era to create a steam locomotive and railroad, transforming commerce and military affairs in the ancient...
Any attempt to list the 50 most important battles in all history is necessarily
subjective. To list them in order of importance is an even greater exercise
of chutzpah. Nevertheless, people have been listing decisive battles since
Sir Edward Creasy, a lawyer who taught history, a century-and-a-half ago.
Other compilers include...
Essentials of Computational Chemistry provides a balanced introduction to this dynamic subject. Suitable for both experimentalists and theorists, a wide range of samples and applications are included drawn from all key areas. The book carefully leads the reader thorough the necessary equations providing information explanations...
Sometimes, when I’m wandering in an art museum looking at the relics of an ancient civilization, I find myself wondering how a
future society would represent a defunct American culture. What objects would be chosen—or would survive—to be placed on
display? Would I agree with a curator’s choices? Were I to choose...
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a modern graphical display system for Windows. It’s a radical change
from the technologies that came before it, with innovative features such as built-in hardware acceleration and
resolution independence, both of which you’ll explore in this chapter.
The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of philosophy and has been the discipline's canonical genre ever since. Paul Feyerabend's Three Dialogues on Knowledge resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. He uses literary...
