This is a short, inexpensive, paperback introduction to sociology for students taking their first sociology courses. The types of "beginnings" discussed include the founding of sociology, biographies of the major founders of sociology, the development of major sociological theories, and the emergence of some major sociological research methods.
George Ritzer's long-awaited text in Postmodern Social Theory is a readable and coherent introduction to the fundamental ideas and most important thinkers in postmodern social theory. Looking at this multidisciplinary field from a sociological perspective, Ritzer offers a modernist reading of the turbulent and often renegade world of postmodern thought, encouraging the reader to see how postmodernism offers a set of ideas that can invigorate and revitalize sociology and sociological theory.
George Ritzer's long-awaited text in Postmodern Social Theory is a readable and coherent introduction to the fundamental ideas and most important thinkers in postmodern social theory.
This book provides a state-of-the-art collection of papers presented at the 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology presented in Maui, Hawaii in September of 2005.
This book provides a state-of-the-art collection of papers presented at the 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology presented in Maui, Hawaii in September of 2005.
Cross Language Text Retrieval (CLTR) has been defined as the retrieval of documents in a language different from that of the original query. To make this possible some kind of mechanism has to be applied in order to translate the information contained in the source sentence. Many different approaches have been carried out with the purpose of transferring the information from the source language query to the target language one. Though all these methods deal with a way of translating as much information as possible from the source query, little research has been conducted in relation to the field of Machine Translation (MT). The purpose of this research work is to determine the feasibility of using MT techniques for CLTR. Specifically, I will describe how a MT system has been adapted without much effort to translate Spanish queries of a specific domain, i.e. Finance and Economics, into English in order to retrieve documents related to that field. The results of this process will then be compared with the results obtained from the retrieval of the original English queries. Thus, I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using MT for CLTR.
This second part of the project proved essential for deciding the benefits that a
more complex linguistic based method can add to CLTR. For this part of the
project, I worked with TRECQ1-10. First of all, it is important to mention the fact
that the IR system was not helpful for the experimentation involved here. SIRE is
designed to deal with words individually, and thus a comparison between the
retrieval of the original TREC queries using strings of individual words as
opposed to other ...
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