American Museum of Natural History: Pocket Birds of North America, Western Region
Profiling more than 400 of the most commonly seen birds in western North America, this handy photographic field guide brings each species to life on the page.
The newly launched BBC Earth magazine offers inspiring and engaging features across: nature, science, people and space. Plus, what’s happening in the month ahead from the latest BBC Earth programmes to events, natural wonders and places to visit. It’s the go-to place for insider information about BBC Earth programming with behind the scenes access to the teams who bring us up close to our natural world.
Television Dialogue: The Sitcom Friends vs. Natural Conversation
This book explores a virtually untapped, yet fascinating research area: television dialogue. It reports on a study comparing the language of the American situation comedy Friends to natural conversation. Transcripts of the television show and the American English conversation portion of the Longman Grammar Corpus provide the data for this corpus-based investigation, which combines Douglas Biber’s multidimensional methodology with a frequency-based analysis of close to 100 linguistic features. As a natural offshoot of the research design, this study offers a comprehensive description of the most common linguistic features characterizing natural conversation...
This book presents a unique opportunity for constructing a consistent image of collaborative manual annotation for Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP has witnessed two major evolutions in the past 25 years: firstly, the extraordinary success of machine learning, which is now, for better or for worse, overwhelmingly dominant in the field, and secondly, the multiplication of evaluation campaigns or shared tasks. Both involve manually annotated corpora, for the training and evaluation of the systems.
Wonderpedia is the magazine for the enquiring mind. Every month, we gather the most brilliant minds from the world of science, history, and cutting-edge technology, to answer the burning questions we all have about the world we live in while inspiring a thousand more. From the most important moments in history to gripping world events and revolutionary technology, from outer space to the depths of the ocean and from the secrets of the natural world to the inner workings of the human mind and body, every issue of Wonderpedia is full of wonderful facts, stunning photography, and thought provoking editorial.
