For a long time, I and others have been looking for a simple interface to the translation of the Holy Quran in English and others languages. Inshallah, I hope this attempt will make it easier for us to read the Quran on the web or at home in its electronic form.
From Research to Manuscript: A Guide to Scientific Writing
From Research to Manuscript, written in simple, straightforward language, explains how to understand and summarize a research project. It is a writing guide that goes beyond grammar and bibliographic formats, by demonstrating in detail how to compose the sections of a scientific paper. This book takes you from the data on your desk and leads you through the drafts and rewrites needed to build a thorough, clear science article. At each step, the book describes not only what to do but why and how. It discusses why each section of a science paper requires its particular form of information, and it shows how to put your data and your arguments into that form. Importantly, this writing manual recognizes that experiments in different disciplines need different presentations, and it is illustrated with examples from well-written papers on a wide variety of scientific subjects.
As a textbook or as an individual tutorial, From Research to Manuscript belongs in the library of every serious science writer and editor.
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Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition
This book is an absolute necessity for instructors at all levels, as
well as an indispensable reference for researchers. Introducing NLP,
computational linguistics, and speech recognition comprehensively in a
single book is an ambitious enterprise. The authors have managed it
admirably, paying careful attention to traditional foundations,
relating recent developments and trends to those foundations, and tying
it all together with insight and humor. Remarkable.(Amazon.com).
Scientific Writing: A Reader and Writer's Guide by Jean-Luc Lebrun Given that scientific material can be
hard to comprehend, sustained attention and memory retention become
major reader challenges. Scientific writers must not only present their
science, but also work hard to generate and sustain the interest of
readers. Attention-getters, sentence progression, expectation-setting,
and memory offloaders are essential devices to keep readers and
reviewers engaged. The writer needs to have a clear understanding of
the role played by each part of a paper, from its eye-catching title to
its eye-opening conclusion. This book walks through the main parts of a
paper; that is, those parts which create the critical first impression.
The unique approach in this book is its focus on the reader rather than
the writer. Senior scientists who supervise staff and postgraduates can
use the book to review drafts and to help with the writing as well as
the science. Young researchers can find solid guidelines that reduce
the confusion all new writers face. Published scientists can finally
move from what feels right to what is right, identifying mistakes they
thought were acceptable, and fully appreciating their responsibility:
to guide the reader along carefully laid-out reading tracks. (Amazon.com).
Contexts: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language by Stefano Predelli
Book Description
Stefano Predelli comes to the defence of
the traditional 'formal' approach to natural-language semantics,
arguing that it has been misrepresented not only by its critics, but
also by its foremost defenders. In Contexts he offers a fundamental
reappraisal, with particular attention to the treatment of indexicality
and other forms of contextual dependence which have been the focus of
much recent controversy. Predelli shows how his metasemantic approach
deals with a variety of important semantic and philosophical puzzles.
He analyses the relationship between indexicality and logical validity,
discussing well-known problem cases, and demonstrating the limits of
token-reflexive systems. He investigates the relationships between
truth-conditions and assignments of truth-values at particular points
of evaluation, and shows that so-called contextualist worries do not
undermine the traditional semantic approach. Finally, he shows that
semantic befuddlement about the interpretation of attitude reports is
based on an inadequate understanding of the scope of natural language
semantics. Contexts will be of great interest to all philosophers of
language, and to many linguists. (Amazon.com)
