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Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
Semiometrics: Applying Ontologies across Large-Scale Digital Libraries
No full textAs large-scale digital libraries become more available and complete, not to mention more numerous, it is clear there is a need for services that can draw together and perform inference calculations on the metadata produced. However, the traditional Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) model, while efficiently constructed and optimised for many business structures, does not necessarily cope well with issues of concurrent data updates and retrieval at the scale of hundreds of thousands of papers. At the same time the growth of RDF and the increasing interest in Semantic Web technologies perhaps begins to present a viable alternative at a scalable, practical level. This paper considers a specific application of large-scale metadata analysis and conducts scalability tests using real-world data. It concludes that RDF technologies are both a scalable and performance-realistic alternative to traditional RDBMS approaches. It also shows that for relationship-based queries on large-scale metadata stores, RDF technologies can significantly out-perform traditional RDBMS approaches by allowing both retrieval and updating of data in a timely manner
Towards moral and authentic generalization : humanity, individual human beings and distortion
No full textThe article treats the issue of generality. How may one conceive of the relationship between the uniqueness of individuality and the commonality of the human (species and society) without reduction? Can generalization be made moral – es-chewing stereotypes in society – and can it be made authentic – enacting a human science which treats the individual as a thing-in-itself? Simmel’s seminal inter-vention was to see generality as a necessary kind of distortion. In contrast, this article offers rational models of the one and the whole which expect to retain the uniqueness of the one; and it suggests characteristics of human embodiment (ca-pacities, potentialities) that speak to individuality and generality at the same time. The article ends with a reconsideration of distortion as a humane artistic represen-tation, by way of the work of Stanley Spencer.Peer reviewe
Semiometrics: producing a compositional view of influence
No full textHigh-impact academic papers are not necessarily the most cited. For example, Einstein's 'Special Relativity' paper from 1905 received (and continues to receive) fewer citations from other papers than his 'Brownian Motion" paper of the same year, despite the former radically changing the course of an entire scientific discipline to a much greater extent. Similarly, 'impact' metrics using citation count alone are, it is argued, not adequate for determining the scientific influence of papers, authors or small groups of authors. Although valid, they remain controversial when used to determine influence of larger groups or journals. While the term 'impact' has become closely linked to a journal's citation-based Journal Impact Factor score, this thesis uses the term 'influence' to describe the wider effectiveness of research, combining citation and metadata analysis to allow richer calculations to be performed over large-scale document networks. As a result, more qualitative influence ratings can be determined and a broader outlook on scientific disciplines can be produced. These ratings are best applied using an ontology-based data source, allowing more efficient inference than under a traditional RDBMS system, and allowing easier integration between heterogeneous data sources. These metrics, termed 'Semantic Bibliometrics' or 'Semiometrics', can be applied at a variety of levels of granularity, allowing a compositional framework for impact and influence analysis. This thesis describes the process of data preparation, systems architecture, metric value and data integration for such a system, introducing novel approaches at all four stages, thereby creating a working semiometrics system for determining influence at different semantic levels of granularity
Ep. #181 - Nigel Clark
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic discuss a strange effort to police sugar packet play on this week’s podcast. Then (15:52) we are delighted to welcome Nigel Clark to the conversation. Nigel is Chair of Social Sustainability and Human Geography at Lancaster University (https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/nigel-clark ). He is the author of Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet (2011) and co-editor of Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World (2012), Material Geographies (2008) and Extending Hospitality(2009). We start things off by talking about a new book he is working on called The Anthropocene and Societythat he is working on with Bron Szerszynski and what it means to rethink humanity through planetary strata, flows, and multiplicity. We turn from there to Australian feminism, phosphates, Aotearoa New Zealand as a space of settler grassland experiments, wealth, and geocide. Then we touch on fire and its excess, our brittle life on an earth’s surface caught between solar and geothermal vitalities, metamorphosis, the early connection between gunpowder and combustion engines and European geotrauma. A special birthday week shout-out to our very own eternal Cymene Howe :
Towers and enclosures of Lesbian masonry in Lesbos : rural investment in the chora of archaic poleis
No full textΕίναι γεγονός ότι γνωρίζουμε αρκετά πράγματα γύρω από τους αρχαίους πύργους, νησιωτικούς και ηπειρωτικούς, καθώς και για τους περιβόλους, που μερικές φορές τους περικλείουν. Ωστόσο, όλοι σχεδόν οι γνωστοί πύργοι χρονολογούνται στην κλασική και ελληνιστική περίοδο, οπότε φιλολογικές και αρχαιολογικές μαρτυρίες δηλώνουν το έντονο ενδιαφέρον των πόλεων για την χώρα τους. Στη Λέσβο όμως, φαίνεται ότι ήδη από την αρχαϊκή περίοδο κτίζονται με το λεσβιακό οικοδομικό σύστημα, είτε πύργοι με περίβολο, είτε περίβολοι χωρίς πύργο στο εσωτερικό τους. Η παρούσα ανακοίνωση περιορίζεται στο να παρουσιάσει τα βασικά και ίσως άγνωστα χαρακτηριστικά αυτών των κατασκευών και να υπογραμμίσει τη σοβαρή επένδυση που αυτές δηλώνουν *.Spencer Nigel. Towers and enclosures of Lesbian masonry in Lesbos : rural investment in the chora of archaic poleis. In: Structures rurales et sociétés antiques. Actes du colloque de Corfou (14-16 mai 1992) Besançon : Université de Franche-Comté, 1994. pp. 207-214. (Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon, 508
Towers and enclosures of Lesbian masonry in Lesbos : rural investment in the chora of archaic poleis
No full textΕίναι γεγονός ότι γνωρίζουμε αρκετά πράγματα γύρω από τους αρχαίους πύργους, νησιωτικούς και ηπειρωτικούς, καθώς και για τους περιβόλους, που μερικές φορές τους περικλείουν. Ωστόσο, όλοι σχεδόν οι γνωστοί πύργοι χρονολογούνται στην κλασική και ελληνιστική περίοδο, οπότε φιλολογικές και αρχαιολογικές μαρτυρίες δηλώνουν το έντονο ενδιαφέρον των πόλεων για την χώρα τους. Στη Λέσβο όμως, φαίνεται ότι ήδη από την αρχαϊκή περίοδο κτίζονται με το λεσβιακό οικοδομικό σύστημα, είτε πύργοι με περίβολο, είτε περίβολοι χωρίς πύργο στο εσωτερικό τους. Η παρούσα ανακοίνωση περιορίζεται στο να παρουσιάσει τα βασικά και ίσως άγνωστα χαρακτηριστικά αυτών των κατασκευών και να υπογραμμίσει τη σοβαρή επένδυση που αυτές δηλώνουν *.Spencer Nigel. Towers and enclosures of Lesbian masonry in Lesbos : rural investment in the chora of archaic poleis. In: Structures rurales et sociétés antiques. Actes du colloque de Corfou (14-16 mai 1992) Besançon : Université de Franche-Comté, 1994. pp. 207-214. (Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon, 508
Social theory and the sociological imagination: an interview with Nigel Dodd (1 of 2)
No full textPart I of our interview with Nigel Dodd, interviewed by Riad Azar. Nigel Dodd is Professor in the Sociology Department at the LSE. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1991 on the topic of Money in Social Theory, and lectured at the University of Liverpool before joining the LSE in 1995. Nigel’s main interests are in the sociology of money, economic sociology and classical and contemporary social thought. He is author of The Sociology of Money and Social Theory and Modernity (both published by Polity Press). His most recent book, The Social Life of Money, was published by Princeton University Press in September 2014
Grupo Dolmetsch (Reino Unido)
No full textConcierto interpretado por Grupo Dolmetsch. Para esta ocasión está conformado por Francois Dolmetsch, Jan Spencer, Nigel Foster y Carlos Rocha. La familia Dolmetsch encabezada por Carl Dolmetsch enseñó a sus hijos Francois, Jeanne y Marguerite a interpretar la flauta dulce, la viola y el clavecín desde muy jóvenes. Además de dirigir los talleres Dolmetsch de instrumentos y música antigua y la Escuela de Verano, son artistas internacionales por derecho propio.
En este concierto el grupo interpretó obras de Jean Marie Leclair, Jean Philippe Rameau, Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Pureell, Edmundo Rubbra, Gordon Jacob y Antonio Vivaldi
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