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To avoid confusion about tea party titles please read.

There seems to be some confusion in the media and even amongst some of those involved in the tea party movement . The confusion stems from a...
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Just what exactly is polyamory, anyway?

Sometimes, in the course of human events, one needs to go back and clarify one's definitions. For the term and concept "polyamory,"...
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Nurture a love and appreciation of words

Vocabulary is important to reading comprehension. Children cannot make sense of text without understanding what most of the words mean. Vocabulary...
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What is Lemmatization?

  • lemmatization
  • January 16, 2011
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, to lemmatize means "to sort (words as they occur in a text) so as to group together those that are...
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Definition: Normalization

In the context of metadata and information retrieval, normalization is the process of converting text to a standard form so that the computer can...
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What are Meronyms and Why Are They Important?

  • Meronyms
  • October 4, 2010
According to the OED Online, a meronym is "a word denoting an object which forms part of another object."Here are some examples:Roof is a...
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Definition: Overgeneration and Undergeneration

An alert I set up recently led me to a European Union patent application for a new method of text mining. My alert is programmed to look weekly for...
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Definition: Cross Reference

In the metadata context, a cross reference is a term that leads to the preferred synonym for a particular concept. Cross references occur in...
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Definition: Query expansion

Query expansion is an automated process carried out by information searching systems that attempts to improve recall in users' searches. Query...
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New Library/Information Science Term: Blind Indexing

Summary: A searcher enters terms in a bibliographic database's search box, gets results, and finds that the terms he searched are nowhere to be...
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