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Event-based Access to Historical Italian War Memoirs
The progressive digitization of historical archives provides new, often
domain specific, textual resources that report on facts and events which have
happened in the past; among these, memoirs are a very common type of primary
source. In this paper, we present an approach for extracting information from
Italian historical war memoirs and turning it into structured knowledge. This
is based on the semantic notions of events, participants and roles. We evaluate
quantitatively each of the key-steps of our approach and provide a graph-based
representation of the extracted knowledge, which allows to move between a Close
and a Distant Reading of the collection.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figure
Automatic Palaeographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts
The Cairo Genizah is a collection of hand-written documents containing approximately
350,000 fragments of mainly Jewish texts discovered in the late 19th
century. The
fragments are today spread out in some 75 libraries and private collections worldwide,
but there is an ongoing effort to document and catalogue all extant fragments.
Palaeographic information plays a key role in the study of the Genizah collection.
Script style, and–more specifically–handwriting, can be used to identify fragments that
might originate from the same original work. Such matched fragments, commonly
referred to as “joins”, are currently identified manually by experts, and presumably only
a small fraction of existing joins have been discovered to date. In this work, we show
that automatic handwriting matching functions, obtained from non-specific features
using a corpus of writing samples, can perform this task quite reliably. In addition, we
explore the problem of grouping various Genizah documents by script style, without
being provided any prior information about the relevant styles. The automatically
obtained grouping agrees, for the most part, with the palaeographic taxonomy. In cases
where the method fails, it is due to apparent similarities between related scripts
Special Libraries, November 1953
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The C++0x "Concepts" Effort
C++0x is the working title for the revision of the ISO standard of the C++
programming language that was originally planned for release in 2009 but that
was delayed to 2011. The largest language extension in C++0x was "concepts",
that is, a collection of features for constraining template parameters. In
September of 2008, the C++ standards committee voted the concepts extension
into C++0x, but then in July of 2009, the committee voted the concepts
extension back out of C++0x.
This article is my account of the technical challenges and debates within the
"concepts" effort in the years 2003 to 2009. To provide some background, the
article also describes the design space for constrained parametric
polymorphism, or what is colloquially know as constrained generics. While this
article is meant to be generally accessible, the writing is aimed toward
readers with background in functional programming and programming language
theory. This article grew out of a lecture at the Spring School on Generic and
Indexed Programming at the University of Oxford, March 2010
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