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Multilingual Entity Linking

by Chen-Tse Tsai, Shyam Upadhyay, Dan Roth ...

Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
This book focuses on Entity Discovery and Linking (EDL), which is the problem of identifying concepts and entities, disambiguating them, and grounding them to one or more knowledge bases (KBs). The authors first provide background on the topic and emphasize why it is a crucial step toward understanding natural language text. As most of the content on the internet is not in English, the book also ... Read more

$40.99 USD

This book focuses on Entity Discovery and Linking (EDL), which is the problem of identifying concepts and entities, disambiguating them, and grounding them to one or more knowledge bases (KBs). The authors first provide background on the topic and emphasize why it is a crucial step toward understanding natural language text. As most of the content on the internet is not in English, the book also
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My Life as a Man

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Dan John Miller ...

Unabridged

12 hours 10 min

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, internationally acclaimed author of American Pastoral delivers a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth’s most blistering novel.At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a ... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning, internationally acclaimed author of American Pastoral delivers a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth’s most blistering novel.At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a
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Recognizing Textual Entailment

Models and Applications

by Ido Dagan, Dan Roth, Mark Sammons ...

Series series Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies
In the last few years, a number of NLP researchers have developed and participated in the task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE). This task encapsulates Natural Language Understanding capabilities within a very simple interface: recognizing when the meaning of a text snippet is contained in the meaning of a second piece of text. This simple abstraction of an exceedingly complex problem has ... Read more

$45.99 USD

In the last few years, a number of NLP researchers have developed and participated in the task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE). This task encapsulates Natural Language Understanding capabilities within a very simple interface: recognizing when the meaning of a text snippet is contained in the meaning of a second piece of text. This simple abstraction of an exceedingly complex problem has
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WARHOLCAPOTE

A Non-Fiction Invention

by Rob Roth, Blake Gopnik ...

Narrated by Rob Roth, Dan Butler, Stephen Spinella, Dennis Boutsikaris ...

Unabridged

3 hours 22 min

An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends—Andy Warhol and Truman Capote.In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested that he record their private conversations over the period of a few months, and that these tapes would be the source material for the play. The tapes were then filed away and forgotten. Their play was ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends—Andy Warhol and Truman Capote.In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested that he record their private conversations over the period of a few months, and that these tapes would be the source material for the play. The tapes were then filed away and forgotten. Their play was
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The Last Messengers

by Dan F. Merrill ...

Hope, a young lawyer becomes acquainted with a study group and learns of a plot to interrupt government computers. She wants answers but she must decide which of three men she can trust. Two of them are friends, one from her past and one in her present. The third man is very determined to warn the public about the government's planned control of the populace. Just when she begins to trust one of ... Read more

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Hope, a young lawyer becomes acquainted with a study group and learns of a plot to interrupt government computers. She wants answers but she must decide which of three men she can trust. Two of them are friends, one from her past and one in her present. The third man is very determined to warn the public about the government's planned control of the populace. Just when she begins to trust one of
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Zuckerman Unbound

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Nathan Zuckerman Series
Unabridged

5 hours 28 min

Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky (“Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?”), he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisors, and sidewalk ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky (“Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?”), he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisors, and sidewalk
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The Professor of Desire

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

8 hours 45 min

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes thoughtful and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it, why we flee it, and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire.As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself “a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes.” Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip ... Read more

$22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes thoughtful and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it, why we flee it, and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire.As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself “a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes.” Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip
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The Anatomy Lesson

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Nathan Zuckerman Series
Unabridged

7 hours 37 min

At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction—pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain or assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain could ... Read more

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At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction—pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain or assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain could
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Letting Go

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Luke Daniels ...

Unabridged

24 hours 59 min

The first full-length novel from one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral, tells the story of a mid-century America and offers “further proof of Mr. Roth’s astonishing talent…Letting Go seethes with life” (The New York Times).Published when Roth was twenty-nine and set in Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents ... Read more

$34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The first full-length novel from one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral, tells the story of a mid-century America and offers “further proof of Mr. Roth’s astonishing talent…Letting Go seethes with life” (The New York Times).Published when Roth was twenty-nine and set in Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents
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The Ghost Writer

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Nathan Zuckerman Series
Unabridged

4 hours 31 min

The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the great books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff.At Lonoff’s, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former ... Read more

$16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the great books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff.At Lonoff’s, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former
... Read more
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The Prague Orgy

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Series Audiobook 4 - The Nathan Zuckerman Series
Unabridged

2 hours 17 min

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he ... Read more

$13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he
... Read more
Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications

From Theory to Practice

by Daniel Bikel, Imed Zitouni ...

Series series IBM Press
Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications is the first comprehensive single-source guide to building robust and accurate multilingual NLP systems. Edited by two leading experts, it integrates cutting-edge advances with practical solutions drawn from extensive field experience.Part I introduces the core concepts and theoretical foundations of modern multilingual natural language ... Read more

$113.39 USD

Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications is the first comprehensive single-source guide to building robust and accurate multilingual NLP systems. Edited by two leading experts, it integrates cutting-edge advances with practical solutions drawn from extensive field experience.Part I introduces the core concepts and theoretical foundations of modern multilingual natural language
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