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Academic History Writing And Its Disconnects By Tim Hitchcock | Digital Humanities Now
Limitations of note taking on ebooks
....I agree with you about the current crop of book simulators. They are rather stupid, and don’t let me have the kind of dialogic relationship with text that I want. Why shouldn’t my ‘reader’ know what I am working on, and privilege that subject in the text (perhaps…
Building The Next New York Times Recommendation Engine - The New York Times
Collaborative topic modeling applied to the new york times
It turns out that straddling both techniques can give us the best of both worlds. We built an algorithm inspired by a technique, Collaborative Topic Modeling (CTM), that (1) models content, (2) adjusts this model by viewing signals from readers, (3) models reader preference and…
Elife, Reveals A Fresh Approach To Presenting And Using Scientific Content On Its New Website, Launched Today. | Stm Publishing
eLife's new way of presenting articles
The new site also offers a chance to explore how eLife is taking advantage of digital media. Presentation of content is clean and distraction-free, allowing authors to present the results of their research in full, and inviting readers to delve deeply into the work by exploring…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
The active audience
When the writer expands the story to include multiple possibilities, the reader assumes a more active role. Contemporary stories, in high and low culture, keep reminding us of the storyteller and inviting us to second-guess the choices he or she has made. This can be unsettling…
How Books Will Become Machines
Reading the encyclopedia like a hunter
As pages and paragraphs offered clear organizational landmarks in a volume of text, we got used to positioning ourselves spatially within a discourse, to evaluate the length of journey that we need to take to reach the conclusion of a demonstration. We got ac- customed to…
Reading analytics
The transformation of the readers’ behavior into data in- augurates the new domain of reading analytics. Reading patterns can now be analyzed, compared and maybe predicted. Through this process they also gain a commercial value. Gathering and reselling reading logs and…
Hypotheses, Evidence And Relationships: The Hyper Approach For Representing Scientific Knowledge Claims
Nanopublications require extracting discourse pragmatics
The shift to author intent means shifting our conceptualization of the text towards discourse: that is, a move from viewing the text as a collection of verbs and nouns, to a view of the contextualized pragmatic language used for science. [...] We call this conceptual approach…
Open Text - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Open text (opera aperta)
In semiotic analysis, an open text is a text that allows multiple or mediated interpretation by the readers. In contrast, a closed text leads the reader to one intended interpretation. The concept of the open text comes from Umberto Eco's collection of essays The Role of the…
Philosophy Engines: Technology And Reading/writing/thinking Philosophy
The shadow of the machine on philosophy
What account of intentionality, meaning and expressivity will be intuitive to practitioners of philosophy who use these technologies for accessing and analysing multiple electronic texts? What account of mind, self and morality will be intuitive to human readers grasping text…
Red Herring - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Red herring (definition)
Red herring is an idiom that refers to a logical fallacy that misleads or detracts from the actual issue.[1] It is also a literary device that leads readers or characters towards a false conclusion, often used in mystery or detective fiction.
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Books need indexes as travellers need maps
Someone once said that “a book without an index is like a country without a map”. However interesting and worthwhile the experience of driving from A to B without a map might be in its own right, there can be no doubt that when the goal is to arrive at one's destination as…