CiteULike: arthit's library [77 articles]

Fieldwork in a post-colonial anthropology. Experience and the comparative

Rajni Palriwala — 2008-07-21T08:19:31-00:00

Social Anthropology, Vol. 13, No. 02. (2005), pp. 151-170.

Presidential Address: "The Peoples of Asia"-Science and Politics in the Classification of Ethnic Groups in Thailand, China, and Vietnam

Charles Keyes — 2008-07-21T08:13:53-00:00

The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 61, No. 4. (2002), pp. 1163-1203.

Review: [Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache]

Sarah Johnson — 2008-06-30T04:12:27-00:00

The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 111, No. 442. (1998), pp. 444-446.

Obituary: Lauriston Sharp (1907-1993)

Thomas Kirsc — 2008-06-16T07:25:45-00:00

The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 53, No. 4. (1994), pp. 1358-1359.

Review: [Bang Chan: Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand]

Brian Foster — 2008-06-16T06:57:28-00:00

Ethnohistory, Vol. 30, No. 1. (1983), pp. 35-36.

Review: [Bang Chan: Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand]

Constance Wilson — 2008-06-16T06:55:29-00:00

The American Historical Review, Vol. 84, No. 2. (1979)

Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics

Christopher Kelty — 2005-06-27T23:36:36-00:00

Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 20, No. 2. (2005), pp. 185-214.

This article investigates the social, technical, and legal affiliations among "geeks" (hackers, lawyers, activists, and IT entrepreneurs) on the Internet. The mode of association specific to this group is that of a "recursive public sphere" constituted by a shared imaginary of the technical practices (hacking, networking, and code writing) as through discursive argument (rights, identities, and relations). In addition, they consider a "right to tinker" a form of free speech that takes the form of creating, implementing, modifying, or using specific kinds of software (especially Free Software) rather than verbal discourse.

Women in the Field: Anthropological Experiences

Peggy Golde — 2008-06-07T17:27:03-00:00

(1986)

Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Bronislaw Malinowski — 2006-03-20T23:10:37-00:00

The founding document of economic anthropology! Bronislaw Malinowski, one of the all-time great anthropologists of the world, had a talent for bringing together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living with the cool abstractions of science. His pages have become an almost indispensable link between the knowing of exotic and remote people with theoretical knowledge about humankind. This volume--originally published in 1922--can be considered the founding document of economic anthropology, and remains the best one to read. It emphasizes the great significance of primitive economics by singling out the notable exchange system of the Trobriand Islands for special consideration. Although the main theme is economic, constant reference is made in this milestone of anthropological research and interpretation to social organization, life and meaning, the power of magic, and to mythology and folklore.

Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)

Richard Fox — 2007-06-12T11:41:33-00:00

(01 November 1991)

How Native Is a "Native" Anthropologist?

Kirin Narayan — 2008-06-07T17:03:20-00:00

American Anthropologist, Vol. 95, No. 3. (1993), pp. 671-686.

The Vulnerable Observer : Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart

Ruth Behar — 2006-03-26T03:12:09-00:00

(06 November 1997)

In The Vulnerable Observer, Ruth Behar--ethnographer, essayist, editor, poet, and a professor of anthropology--challenges traditional theories and offers a more personal approach to anthropology in which the line between observer and observed is not so easily drawn and the observers themselves are not only visible, but vulnerable to their subjects. As she writes, "Call it sentimental, call it Victorian and nineteenth century, but I say that anthropology that doesn't break your heart just isn't worth doing anymore." These insightful, often poetic essays weave together memories of childhood as a Cuban Jewish immigrant with accounts of fieldwork in Spain, Cuba, and the United States. Along the way, Behar tirelessly investigates and elegantly communicates the "central dilemma of all aspects of witnessing." In her own words, "Are there limits--of respect, piety, pathos--that should not be crossed, even to leave a record?" Award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology—an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice. "Behar has convinced me that ethnographic empathy will produce an anthropology that has greater meaning than the distanced and detached academic anthropology of the past." —Barbara Fisher, The Boston Globe Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology. She proposes an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice. She does so in the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling, not only in contemporary anthropology, but in all acts of witnessing. "Her luminous essays build cultural bridges and challenge conventional ways of doing anthropology." —Publishers Weekly

Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence

Valentine Daniel — 2008-06-07T09:40:10-00:00

(1996)

How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of the questions that engage Valentine Daniel in this exploration of life and death in contemporary Sri Lanka. In 1983 Daniel "walked into the ashes and mortal residue" of the violence that had occurred in his homeland. His planned project--the study of women's folk songs as ethnohistory--was immediately displaced by the responsibility that he felt had been given to him, by surviving family members and friends of victims, to recount beyond Sri Lanka what he had seen and heard there. Trained to do fieldwork by staying in one place and educated to look for coherence and meaning in human behavior, what does an anthropologist do when he is forced by circumstances to keep moving, searching for reasons he never finds? How does he write an ethnography (or an anthropography, to use the author's term) without transforming it into a pornography of violence? In avoiding fattening the anthropography into prurience, how does he avoid flattening it with theory? The ways in which Daniel grapples with these questions, and their answers, instill this groundbreaking book with a rare sense of passion, purpose, and intellect.

Ethnography: Principles in Practice

Mart Hammersley — 2008-01-29T22:39:15-00:00

(12 January 1995)

Thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten, the second edition of this popular textbook is now even more relevant and useful for students and researchers. In this accessible introduction to the methods of ethnographic fieldwork, Hammersley and Atkinson reconsider the status of ethnography and seek to place it quite explicitly in a general methodological context. Ethnography provides a systematic and coherent account of ethnographic principles and practices. From an outline of the principle of reflexivity the authors go on to discuss and exemplify the main features of ehtnographic work, such as the selection and sampling of cases, the problems of access, observation and interviewing, recording and filing data, and the process of data analysis. There is also consideration of the ethical issues surrounding ethnographic research. Throughout, the discussion draws on a wide range of illustrative material from classic and more recent studies in Britain and the US.

Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology

Bruce Knauft — 2008-06-07T09:28:19-00:00

(27 August 1996)

In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements with fresh readings of major figures and approaches, the work develops a larger vantage point for considering the dispersing influence of practice theories, postmodernism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, modern/post-positive feminism, and multicultural criticisms. The larger relationship between culture, power, and representation is critically recast in the course of the analysis, and through frontal engagement with ethical considerations as well as ethnographic specifics, Knauft shows how contemporary anthropology begs for a critical revaluation of humanist sensibilities. Ultimately, anthropology can draw upon past strengths as well as future potentials to combine ethical grounding, ethnographicrigor, and intellectual power.

Reading the Popular

John Fiske — 2005-12-08T20:41:41-00:00

(24 August 1989)

Anthropology, by Comparison

Andre Gingrich — 2008-06-06T20:37:12-00:00

(22 March 2002)

The contributors to this innovative work re-examine how anthropology might resume its central task of exploring human society through comparison, but under new global conditions and using its newfound critical self-awareness. Individual entries from an international group of anthropologists re-visits, re-theorizes and re-invigorates comparison as a legitimate and fruitful enterprise. The authors explain the valuable elements of anthropological comparison and encourage an international dialogue about comparative research. Anthropology, by Comparison is a call to creative reflection on the past and productive action in the present, a challenge to anthropologists to revitalize their unique contribution to human understanding.

The Anthropology of Colonialism: Culture, History, and the Emergence of Western Governmentality

Peter Pels — 2005-02-21T00:30:52-00:00

Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 26 (1997), pp. 163-183.

The study of colonialism erases the boundaries between anthropology and history or literary studies, and between the postcolonial present and the colonial past. From the standpoint of anthropology, it is also reflexive, addressing the colonial use and formation of ethnography and its supporting practices of travel. Since the 1960s, the study of colonialism has increasingly presented a view of colonialism as struggle and negotiation, analyzing how the dichotomous representations that Westerners use for colonial rule are the outcome of much more murky and complex practical interactions. By thus treating Western governmentality as emergent and particular, it is rewriting our histories of the present.

Culture Through Time: Anthropological Approaches

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney — 2008-06-06T20:29:10-00:00

(01 January 1991)

Writing Grant Proposals for Anthropological Research

Sydel Silverman — 2006-03-28T20:48:37-00:00

Current Anthropology, Vol. 32, No. 4. (1991), pp. 485-489.

The Art of Writing Proposals: Some Candid Suggestions for Applicants to Social Science Research Council Competitions

Adam Przeworski — 2008-06-06T20:18:47-00:00

(1995)

Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline (Suny Series in Anthropology of Work)

Aihwa Ong — 2008-06-06T14:17:20-00:00

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

Keith Basso — 2008-06-06T14:14:47-00:00

(01 August 1996)

This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people. Most of us use the term _sense of place_ often and rather carelessly when we think of nature or home or literature. Our senses of place, however, come not only from our individual experiences but also from our cultures. _Wisdom Sits in Places_, the first sustained study of places and place-names by an anthropologist, explores place, places, and what they mean to a particular group of people, the Western Apache in Arizona. For more than thirty years, Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names—where they come from and what they mean to Apaches. "This is indeed a brilliant exposition of landscape and language in the world of the Western Apache. But it is more than that. Keith Basso gives us to understand something about the sacred and indivisible nature of words and place. And this is a universal equation, a balance in the universe. Place may be the first of all concepts; it may be the oldest of all words."—N. Scott Momaday "In _Wisdom Sits in Places_ Keith Basso lifts a veil on the most elemental poetry of human experience, which is the naming of the world. In so doing he invests his scholarship with that rarest of scholarly qualities: a sense of spiritual exploration. Through his clear eyes we glimpse the spirit of a remarkable people and their land, and when we look away, we see our own world afresh."—William deBuys "A very exciting book—authoritative, fully informed, extremely thoughtful, and also engagingly written and a joy to read. Guiding us vividly among the landscapes and related story-tellings of the Western Apache, Basso explores in a highly readable way the role of language in the complex but compelling theme of a people's attachment to place. An important book by an eminent scholar."—Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE (BUT IS EVERYWHERE IN CHAINS)

Wark — 2006-03-23T12:40:10-00:00

Cultural Studies , Vol. 20, No. 2-3. (May 2006), pp. 165-183.

YOUR SECOND LIFE ?

Herman — 2006-03-23T12:40:10-00:00

Cultural Studies , Vol. 20, No. 2-3. (May 2006), pp. 184-210.

Doing Ethnographies

Mike Crang — 2008-06-06T09:09:57-00:00

(12 March 2007)

_"Crang and Cook provide a well-written practical guide to doing ethnographic research in the broadest sense of the term. They begin with a useful discussion of what ethnographic research entails, especially in human geography, and how it fits in the broader realm of social research in a postmodern context. Their discussion of validating truth claims in qualitative research is especially valuable." —_CHOICE **Doing Ethnographies** is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video/photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world 'out there.' In five chapters it presents a systematic overview of: first principles, preparing for fieldwork, constructing ethnographic information, analyzing field materials, and writing. This is a guide to the issues and methods which have to be considered when doing an ethnography. Informed by the authors fieldwork experience, it demonstrates how methods work in the field and prepares the first-time ethnographer for the loss of control and direction often experienced. This is a practical guide to methods in the field, to the relation between theory, practice, and writing. (20080318)

Review: [Anthropologists in a Wider World]

Eric Haanstad — 2008-06-06T08:53:12-00:00

Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 59, No. 1. (2003), pp. 141-143.

Writing for Social Scientists : How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

Howard Becker — 2005-04-23T20:20:46-00:00

(15 March 1986)

Review: Reflections on Fieldnotes: New Light on Ethnographic Practice

Jonathan Spencer — 2008-06-06T08:39:47-00:00

Current Anthropology, Vol. 32, No. 1. (1991), pp. 93-95.

HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, ToRead

Cameron Marlow — 2006-08-24T20:16:54-00:00

(2006), pp. 31-40.

In recent years, tagging systems have become increasingly popular. These systems enable users to add keywords (i.e., "tags") to Internet resources (e.g., web pages, images, videos) without relying on a controlled vocabulary. Tagging systems have the potential to improve search, spam detection, reputation systems, and personal organization while introducing new modalities of social communication and opportunities for data mining. This potential is largely due to the social structure that underlies many of the current systems.Despite the rapid expansion of applications that support tagging of resources, tagging systems are still not well studied or understood. In this paper, we provide a short description of the academic related work to date. We offer a model of tagging systems, specifically in the context of web-based systems, to help us illustrate the possible benefits of these tools. Since many such systems already exist, we provide a taxonomy of tagging systems to help inform their analysis and design, and thus enable researchers to frame and compare evidence for the sustainability of such systems. We also provide a simple taxonomy of incentives and contribution models to inform potential evaluative frameworks. While this work does not present comprehensive empirical results, we present a preliminary study of the photo-sharing and tagging system Flickr to demonstrate our model and explore some of the issues in one sample system. This analysis helps us outline and motivate possible future directions of research in tagging systems.

Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

Robert Emerson — 2005-06-06T05:42:15-00:00

(15 August 1995)

<div>In this companion volume John van Maanen's Tales of the Field, three scholars reveal how the ethnographer turns direct experience and observation into written fieldnotes upon which an ethnography is based. Drawing on years of teaching and field research experience, the authors develop a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice about how to write useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, both cultural and institutional. Using actual unfinished, "working" notes as examples, they illustrate options for composing, reviewing, and working fieldnotes into finished texts. They discuss different organizational and descriptive strategies, including evocation of sensory detail, synthesis of complete scenes, the value of partial versus omniscient perspectives, and of first person versus third person accounts. Of particular interest is the author's discussion of notetaking as a mindset. They show how transforming direct observations into vivid descriptions results not simply from good memory but more crucially from learning to envision scenes as written. A good ethnographer, they demonstrate, must learn to remember dialogue and movement like an actor, to see colors and shapes like a painter, and to sense moods and rhythms like a poet. The authors also emphasize the ethnographer's core interest in presenting the perceptions and meanings which the people studied attach to their own actions. They demonstrate the subtle ways that writers can make the voices of people heard in the texts they produce. Finally, they analyze the "processing" of fieldnotes--the practice of coding notes to identify themes and methods for selecting and weaving together fieldnote excerpts to write a polished ethnography. This book, however, is more than a "how-to" manual. The authors examine writing fieldnotes as an interactive and interpretive process in which the researcher's own commitments and relationships with those in the field inevitably shape the character and content of those fieldnotes. They explore the conscious and unconscious writing choices that produce fieldnote accounts. And they show how the character and content of these fieldnotes inevitably influence the arguments and analyses the ethnographer can make in the final ethnographic tale. This book shows that note-taking is a craft that can be taught. Along with Tales of the Field and George Marcus and Michael Fisher's Anthropology as Cultural Criticism, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes is an essential tool for students and social scientists alike. </div>

How to Read Ethnography

Huon Wardle — 2008-06-05T09:37:14-00:00

(12 December 2006)

This book provides a gateway to anthropological thought and knowledge by teaching the essential skill of reading and interpreting ethnography. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, the book shows how to understand and evaluate ethnographic texts, critique them originally, identify their core ideas and transfer these to other contexts. Including excerpts from key ethnographies and balanced and progressive reader activities, it matches popular course requirements and teaches an independent approach to this vital element of study. Reading exercises, a timeline, glossary and full chapter summaries also provide interactive resources for coursework and exam revision.

SUMMaR: Combining Linguistics and Statistics for Text Summarization

Manfred Stede — 2008-06-05T07:51:34-00:00

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 141 (29 August 2006), pp. 827-828.

We describe a text summarization system that moves beyond standard approaches by using a hybrid approach of linguistic and statistical analysis and by employing text-sort-specific knowledge of document structure and phrases indicating importance. The system is highly modular and entirely XML-based so that different components can be combined easily.

On-Line Construction of Compact Directed Acyclic Word Graphs

Shunsuke Inenaga — 2007-03-12T07:17:04-00:00

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2089 (2001)

Directed Acyclic Word Graph (DAWG) is a space efficient data structure that supports indices of a string. Compact Directed Acyclic Word Graph (CDAWG) is a more space efficient variant of DAWG. Crochemore and Verin gave the first direct algorithm to construct CDAWGs from given strings, based on the McCreight's algorithm for suffix trees. In this paper, we give an Ukkonen's counterpart for CDAWGs. That is, we show an on-line algorithm that constructs CDAWGs from given strings directly.

Fast Practical Multi-Pattern Matching

Maxime Crochemore — 2007-03-12T06:15:04-00:00

Information Processing Letters, Vol. 71, No. 3-4. (1999), pp. 107-113.

The main result of the paper is the construction of a very fast multi-pattern matching algorithm, called DAWG-MATCH. The algorithm is of Boyer-Moore type. Previous algorithm of this type is the Commentz-Walter algorithm. The DAWG-MATCH algorithm behaves better than Commentz-Walter algorithm. We combine the ideas of two algorithms: the Aho-Corasick algorithm, and the Reverse Factor algorithm from Crochemore et alii. The new algorithm performs at most 2jtextj inspections of text characters, and...

Fast text searching for regular expressions or automaton searching on tries

Richardo — 2007-03-11T19:34:51-00:00

Journal of the ACM, Vol. 43, No. 6. (1996), pp. 915-936.

We present algorithms for efficient searching of regular expressions on preprocessed text, using a Patricia tree as a logical model for the index. We obtain searching algorithms which run in logarithmic expected time in the size of the text for a wide subclass of regular expressions, and in sublinear expected time for any regular expression. This is the first such algorithm to be found with this complexity. 1 Introduction Pattern matching and text searching are very important components of...

Multiple Pattern Matching in LZW Compressed Text

Takuya Kida — 2007-03-11T19:25:34-00:00

(1998), pp. 103-112.

In this paper we address the problem of searching in LZW compressed text directly, and present a new algorithm for finding multiple patterns bysimulating the moveofthe Aho-Corasick pattern matching machine. The new algorithm finds all occurrences of multiple patterns whereas the algorithm proposed by Amir, Benson, and Farach finds only the first occurrence of a single pattern.

Using common hypertext links to identify the best phrasal description of target web documents

E Amitay — 2005-05-25T14:42:17-00:00

(1998)

This paper describes previous work which studied and compared the distribution of words in web documents with the distribution of words in "normal" flat texts. Based on the findings from this study it is suggested that the traditional IR techniques cannot be used for web search purposes the same way they are used for "normal" text collections, e.g. news articles. Then, based on these same findings, I will describe a new document description model which exploits valuable anchor text information...

Text databases: a survey of text models and systems

Arjan Loeffen — 2005-04-01T10:27:29-00:00

SIGMOD Rec., Vol. 23, No. 1. (March 1994), pp. 97-106.

Models and Tools for Collaborative Annotation

Xiaoyi Ma — 2005-03-17T00:56:24-00:00

(3 April 2002)

The Annotation Graph Toolkit (AGTK) is a collection of software which facilitates development of linguistic annotation tools. AGTK provides a database interface which allows applications to use a database server for persistent storage. This paper discusses various modes of collaborative annotation and how they can be supported with tools built using AGTK and its database interface. We describe the relational database schema and API, and describe a version of the TableTrans tool which supports collaborative annotation. The remainder of the paper discusses a high-level query language for annotation graphs, along with optimizations, in support of expressive and efficient access to the annotations held on a large central server. The paper demonstrates that it is straightforward to support a variety of different levels of collaborative annotation with existing AGTK-based tools, with a minimum of additional programming effort.

A Grid Based Architecture for High-Performance NLP

Baden Hughes — 2005-03-17T00:51:25-00:00

(5 August 2003)

We describe the design and early implementation of an extensible, component-based software architecture for natural language engineering applications which interfaces with high performance distributed computing services. The architecture leverages existing linguistic resource description and discovery mechanisms based on metadata descriptions, combining these in a compatible fashion with other software definition abstractions. Within this architecture, application design is highly flexible, allowing disparate components to be combined to suit the overall application functionality, and formally described independently of processing concerns. An application specification language provides abstraction from the programming environment and allows ease of interface with high performance computational grids via a broker.

The similarity metric

Ming Li — 2004-11-22T00:17:30-00:00

(5 August 2004)

A new class of distances appropriate for measuring similarity relations between sequences, say one type of similarity per distance, is studied. We propose a new “normalized information distance”, based on the noncomputable notion of Kolmogorov complexity, and show that it is in this class and it minorizes every computable distance in the class (that is, it is universal in that it discovers all computable similarities). We demonstrate that it is a metric and call it the similarity metric. This theory forms the foundation for a new practical tool. To evidence generality and robustness we give two distinctive applications in widely divergent areas using standard compression programs like gzip and GenCompress. First, we compare whole mitochondrial genomes and infer their evolutionary history. This results in a first completely automatic computed whole mitochondrial phylogeny tree. Secondly, we fully automatically compute the language tree of 52 different languages.

Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue

Jan van Kuppevelt — 2004-12-28T18:03:09-00:00

Computational Linguistics, Vol. 30, No. 4., 521.

The Mathematics of Language

Marcus Kracht — 2004-12-28T18:03:09-00:00

Computational Linguistics, Vol. 30, No. 4., 513.

Fast Approximate Search in Large Dictionaries

Stoyan Mihov — 2004-12-28T18:03:09-00:00

Computational Linguistics, Vol. 30, No. 4., 451.

Optimizing Referential Coherence in Text Generation

Rodger Kibble — 2004-12-28T18:03:09-00:00

Computational Linguistics, Vol. 30, No. 4., 401.

Comparing Lexical Chain-based Summarisation Approaches Using an Extrinsic Evaluation

William Doran — 2005-03-04T02:02:02-00:00

(2004)

We present a comparative study of lexical chain-based summarisation techniques. The aim of this paper is to highlight the effect of lexical chain scoring metrics and sentence extraction techniques on summary generation. We present our own lexical chain-based summarisation system and compare it to other chainbased summarisation systems. We also compare the chain scoring and extraction techniques of our system to those of several other baseline systems, including a random summarizer and one ...

Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

Christopher Manning — 2005-02-27T13:16:32-00:00

(18 June 1999)

"Statistical natural-language processing is, in my estimation, one of the most fast-moving and exciting areas of computer science these days. Anyone who wants to learn this field would be well advised to get this book. For that matter, the same goes for anyone who is already in the field. I know that it is going to be one of the most well-thumbed books on my bookshelf." -- Eugene Charniak, Department of Computer Science, Brown University Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to appear. The book contains all the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of mathematical and linguistic foundations, as well as detailed discussion of statistical methods, allowing students and researchers to construct their own implementations. The book covers collocation finding, word sense disambiguation, probabilistic parsing, information retrieval, and other applications. More on this book

A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts

Bo Pang — 2005-03-03T14:43:33-00:00

(29 September 2004)

Sentiment analysis seeks to identify the viewpoint(s) underlying a text span; an example application is classifying a movie review as "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". To determine this sentiment polarity, we propose a novel machine-learning method that applies text-categorization techniques to just the subjective portions of the document. Extracting these portions can be implemented using efficient techniques for finding minimum cuts in graphs; this greatly facilitates incorporation of cross-sentence contextual constraints.

Automatic generation of overview timelines

Russell Swan — 2005-03-02T16:23:58-00:00

(2000), pp. 49-56.