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Category:(not categorized)Reads:44Uploaded:08 / 16 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionBrown Christopher Proposal
Dichotomous Classification using Transitive Learning Christopher Brown Department of Linguistics University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station B5100 Austin, TX 78712-0198 USA chbrown@mail.utexas.edu Abstract The classifier implementation outlined in this document is intended to take two corpora that markedly differ from each other in some general way, to learn the parameters that best distinguish the two corpora, and then be able to apply those parameters to a new set of data efficiently. In t
Category:(not categorized)Reads:253Uploaded:10 / 04 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionBrown Christopher Ideas
Semisupervised Project Ideas Christopher Brown Department of Linguistics University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station B5100 Austin, TX 78712-0198 USA chbrown@mail.utexas.edu Summary Two very different ideas: 1) A personallyadaptive spelling correction and style matching text-entry engine. 2) Colloquial/formal classification of texts based on cross-classification between colloquial and formal corpora. set is that active learning involves the human user telling the machine what to learn, and
Category:(not categorized)Reads:147Uploaded:10 / 04 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionJunior Poet Bibliography & Annotations
A list of twenty-five works of criticism that were fundamental in guiding me through my exploration of W. H. Auden, the man, and his poetry.
Category:Essays & ThesesReads:611Uploaded:10 / 09 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionClosure in A Confederacy of Dunces
Senior Thesis. Treats the lack of closure in A Confederacy of Dunces as meaningful.
Category:Essays & ThesesReads:2,226Uploaded:05 / 11 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionThe Law of the Land
Richard II's tragic flaw in Richard II is his seizure of Henry IV's lands. Just because he's king doesn't make it right, either.
Category:Essays & ThesesReads:753Uploaded:05 / 11 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionThe “Play” of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Christopher Brown Literary Study II: Prose Fiction Dr. Waterman Ward 8 February 2009 The “Play†of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza The humor of Don Quixote is ironic, created by the juxtaposition of expectation and reality—aspirations and dashed hopes—mixed together in discrete but shared quantities through Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Those two protagonists escape stereotyping by continually usurping the other’s role, preventing a conclusive circumscription of either character. Even in
Category:Essays & ThesesReads:774Uploaded:04 / 08 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionIn Search of Lost Teleology: Hegel’s Remembrance of Things to Come
'To expose Hegel’s fundamental flaw, this essay will first explicate the end of history as presented in “Absolute Freedom and Terror”; then, via two critics of Hegel and a comparison with Darwin, the “mechanistic” model of reality will be shown to supersede the “teleological” model.'
Category:School WorkReads:1,064Uploaded:04 / 08 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionWhat is Menippean Satire?
The third part of the final exam was this question. As the exam was online, I composed it on my computer, and repost it here, without any editing but formatting changes.
Category:Essays & ThesesReads:2,562Uploaded:04 / 08 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionExuberance in the Face of the Ultimate and Inexorable Pancake
An exploration of what makes Menippean satire, first, Menippean, and second, better and truer than other forms of literature.
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