Sunday, August 30, 2009

folksonomies

Folksonomy (wikipedia)

"Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata"
Adam Mathes (2004)

"Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content" By Joshua Porter (2005)

"Folksonomies Tap People Power" Daniel Terdiman

"Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging"
Emma Toking (2006)

WordNet

WordNet® "is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing".

The British National Corpus

The British National Corpus (BNC)
"is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the later part of the 20th century, both spoken and written. The latest edition is the BNC XML Edition, released in 2007.

The written part of the BNC (90%) includes, for example, extracts from regional and national newspapers, specialist periodicals and journals for all ages and interests, academic books and popular fiction, published and unpublished letters and memoranda, school and university essays, among many other kinds of text. The spoken part (10%) consists of orthographic transcriptions of unscripted informal conversations (recorded by volunteers selected from different age, region and social classes in a demographically balanced way) and spoken language collected in different contexts, ranging from formal business or government meetings to radio shows and phone-ins"

Thursday, August 27, 2009

beautiful day (U2)



The heart is a bloom, Shoots up through the stony ground. There's no room. No space to rent in this town. You're out of luck, And the reason that you had to care. The traffic is stuck, And you're not moving anywhere.You thought you'd found a friend, To take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand, In return for grace.

It's a beautiful day, Sky falls, you feel like. It's a beautiful day, Don't let it get away. You're on the road, But you've got no destination. You're in the mud, In the maze of her imagination. You love this town, Even if that doesn't ring true. You've been all over, And it's been all over you.

It's a beautiful day, Don't let it get away, It's a beautiful day. Touch me, Take me to that other place. Teach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case. See the world in green and blue, See China right in front of you. See the canyons broken by cloud, See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out.See the Bedouin fires at night, See the oil fields at first light. And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth, After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day, Don't let it get away, Beautiful day. Touch me, Take me to that other place. Reach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case. What you don't have you don't need it now, What you don't know you can feel it somehow. What you don't have you don't need it now, Don't need it now. Was a beautiful day

Friday, August 7, 2009

Ben Harper & Tom Freund (Pleasure & Pain)



Im leaving here on the morning train
And I will never see this world again
Ive felt pleasure
And I have felt pain
And I know now
That I can never be the same

How I wonder why the world can be so cold
And if only good die young
Then left with me cruel here to grow old
And I felt pleasure
An I felt pain
And I know now
I can never be the same

And if someday I find my peace of mind
I will share my wealth with all of human kind
Ive felt pleasure
And I have felt pain
And I know now
That I can never be the same

So if the sun does shine or rain does fall
I give thanks Ive had my sight to see through it all
And Ive felt pleasure
And I have felt pain
And I know now
That I can never be the same

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