The need for robust and easily extensible systems for word sense disambiguation coupled with successes in training systems for a variety of tasks using large on-line corpora has led to extensive research into corpus-based statistical approaches to this problem. Promising…

Environmental assessments of regional development projects have been used in Mexico to determine where conflicts between conservation of biodiversity and resource extraction are likely to occur. Speciesrich areas have been acknowledged as a priority for conservation. However, biological information is…

The term 24-Hour Knowledge Factory connotes a globally distributed work environment in which members of the global team work on a project around the clock; each member of the team works the normal workday hours that pertain to his or…

Abstract:
This paper analyzes the reasons for
the marginalization of feminist thought in the interdiscipline
of communication studies and elucidates the potential contributions
of this approach to social communication theorizing.


Résumé:
Cet article fait l'analyse des causes
de…

The tools for fault impact analysis are important for the deployment of critical mission systems. These tools can be also used as a development phase aid. We introduce several concepts related to "business alarms". Business alarms are an approximation to…

Abstract:
Located in the
context of discussion in urban British Columbia as to whether
contemporary First Nations art should properly be referred to
as ``art'' in the Western sense or whether it is, rather, the repository
and communicator of culturally…

Abstract:
There is a certain parallel between arguments
about the decline of the public sphere and the decline of the
university today. Both institutions are said to be increasingly
fragmented and politicized. In this paper, I mobilize Nancy Fraser's
alternative…

Abstract:
Recently, Canadian university campuses
have begun to display signs of increasing corporate influence
in their affairs. In spite of the recent appearance of these
signs, the foundation was laid in the early 1980s for this increasing
corporate influence through…

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