Understanding Language Understanding
Understanding Language Understanding

Author: Ashwin Ram

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780262181921

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This book highlights cutting-edge research relevant to the building of a computational model of reading comprehension, as in the processing and understanding of a natural language text or story. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of reading, with contributions from computer science, psychology, and philosophy. Contributors cover the theoretical and psychological foundations of the research in discussions of what it means to understand a text, how one builds a computational model, and related issues in knowledge representation and reasoning. The book also addresses some of the broader issues that a natural language system must deal with, such as reading in context, linguistic novelty, and information extraction.

Demand My Writing
Demand My Writing

Author: Jeanne Cortiel

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780853236146

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In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, especially in its concern with the function of woman-based intertextuality. Although Cortiel deals principally with Russ’s novels, she also examines her short stories, and the focus on critically neglected texts is a particularly valuable feature of the study. "I recommend this book to any reader interested in Russ’s fiction, or in women’s science fiction generally."—Science Fiction Studies

The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction
The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction

Author: Isaac Asimov

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 9780881847024

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Ten short novels including works by Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny, Dean McLaughlin, Anne McCaffrey, Randall Garrett and Gordon R. Dickson.

Foundation's Friends
Foundation's Friends

Author: Martin H. Greenberg

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780765328304

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No work of science fiction in the twentieth century captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth in the stories and novels of Isaac Asimov. In this volume, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives—and offer personal tributes to the late, great Asimov some years after his death. Foundation's Friends features contributions by Ben Bova, L. Sprague de Camp, Frederik Pohl, Carl Sagan, Harry Turtledove, and others.

Cat Crimes
Cat Crimes

Author: Martin Harry Greenberg

Publisher: Booksales

Published: 1998-11

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781555216801

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Presented are nineteen lively and entertaining brand-new tales of mystery and suspense from modern master, inspired by the cat.

Visions of Fantasy
Visions of Fantasy

Author: Isaac Asimov

Publisher: Starfire

Published: 1991-11

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780553293562

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Introduced and edited by Asimov, this illustrated collection offers 12 masterful tales from the most popular authors in the fantasy genre. Anne McCaffrey, Jane Yolen, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Madeleine L'Engle, and others offer stories of witches, unearthly voices, shattered spirits, and humorous fantasies. 22 full-page illustrations.

Murder, My Dear Watson
Murder, My Dear Watson

Author: Martin H. Greenberg

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2009-06-17

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0786752483

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The game's afoot! Read all-new Sherlock Holmes stories and speculative essays, praised as "of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf" (Rocky Mountain News). Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy-in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson, investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in the popular debut Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten more popular mystery writers celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes. Includes new tales by: Sharyn McCrumb Loren D. Estleman Carolyn Wheat Malachi Saxon Jon L. Breen Bill Crider Colin Bruce Lenore Carroll Barry Day Daniel Stashower And brilliantly insightful essays including: Christopher Redmond on illuminating the vast possibilities that new technology offers in "Sherlock Holmes on the Internet" Editors Lellenberg and Stashower's "A Sherlockian Library" details fifty essential books for the Arthur Conan Doyle fan Philip A. Shreffler's essay explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in "Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart"