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  Jorge Luis Borges Encyclopedia Article @ 209.68.55.253 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
Jorge Guillermo Borges was forced into early retirement from the legal profession owing to the same failing eyesight that would eventually afflict his son, and in 1914, the family moved to Geneva, where Borges senior was treated by a Geneva eye specialist while Borges and his sister Norah (born 1902) attended school.
Borges was forced to marry, first in 1967 by his mother, who at over 90 years old and anticipating her own death, wanted to find someone to care for her blind son.
Borges held the view that a translation may improve upon an original, and that alternative and potentially contradictory renderings of the same work can be equally valid, and further that an original or literal translation can be unfaithful to the original work.
209.68.55.253 /encyclopedia/Jorge_Luis_Borges   (5887 words)

  
 SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - JORGE LUIS BORGES
Jorge Guillermo Borges was forced into early retirement from the legal profession owing to the same failing eyesight that would eventually afflict his son, and in 1914, the family moved to Geneva, where Borges senior was treated by a Geneva eye specialist while Borges and his sister Norah (1901-1998) attended school.
Borges was forced to marry, first in 1967 by his mother, who at over 90 years old and anticipating her own death, wanted to find someone to care for her blind son.
Jorge Luis Borges died of liver cancer in Geneva and is buried in the Cimetière des Rois (Plainpalais), where to the dismay of his close lifelong friends, such as Adolfo Bioy Casares, he was married in extremis to Maria Kodama.
www.webspawner.com /users/jorgeborges7   (2092 words)

  
 Jorge_luis_borges info here at en.articles-by-ken-blanchard.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
Jorge Guillermo Borges was forced into pristine retirement from the sanctioned chosen work owing to the compatible failing eyesight that would in future afflict their son, & in 1914, the lineage moved to Geneva, where Borges senior was treated by a Geneva eye specialist while Borges & their sister Norah (born 1902) attended school.
Borges was forced to marry, pristine in 1967 by their mother, who at artistic 90 dotage veteran & anticipating her customized death, fancyed to hook someone to hindrance for her blind son.
Jorge Luis Borges died of liver cancer in Geneva & is buried in the Cimetière des Rois (Plainpalais), where to the disillusionment of their inflexible by continuing friends, such as Adolfo Bioy Casares, he was married in extremis to Maria Kodama.
en.articles-by-ken-blanchard.info /Jorge_Luis_Borges   (4901 words)

  
 Jorge_Luis_Borges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
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Borges held the panorama that a translation may promote upon an original, & that second & potentially contradictory renderings of the look-alike testing can be equally valid, & another that an principal or literal translation can be unfaithful to the principal work.
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 Hotel Borg
Borg are humanoids of different races that are enhanced with cybernetic implants, giving them improved mental and physical abilities.
The minds of all Borg are connected via implants to a hive, a collective mind, orchestrated by the Borg Queen and controlled from a central hub, the Unicomplex.
As a child, Borg became fascinated by a tennis racket which his father had won as a prize at a ping-pong tournament.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/89/hotel-borg.html   (1183 words)

  
 BORGES
The BORGES project was a research and development project which was partly funded by the European Commission under the Libraries program (project 3052) and ran from January 1995 to July 1996.
The first version of the BORGES filtering system was operational and made available to users in Dublin in October 1995 and BORGES was operational for less than one year overall.
Involvement in a research and development project like BORGES leads to lessons learned and while some of these are the answers to scientific inquiries such as which IR techniques work best in terms of precision and recall for filtering applications, there are also lessons to be learned from providing and operating such a service.
www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue6/borges   (2737 words)

  
 Irreal (Re)views 1: Defining Irrealism: Scientific Development and Allegorical Possibility by Dean Swinford
However, while the selection of experimental sets for analysis is subjective, the coexistence of tendencies in the works of certain twentieth-century authors and artists validates attempts to classify, and hints at the prominence of a common mode of expression, a version of postmodern allegory which can only be called Irreal.
Irrealism is an attempt to understand narratives which may be regarded as the cryptozoological aberrations of postmodern literature, the very Darwinian mutations which, despite their internal logic, exist at the fringes of well defined artistic and literary movements.
While medieval commentators sought for and explicated correct textual disambiguations, contemporary literary theory denies the attribution of fixed meaning to words and letter designated to fix meaning, distinguish ideas, objects, phonemes.
home.sprynet.com /~awhit/review1a.htm   (4404 words)

  
 collage, constructionism, designer, relativism, goethe, historically, theories, symbolism, giotto, louvre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
Kurt Gödel, Jorge Luis Borges, and Jean Baudrillard have famously debated this paradox.
Symbolism is the systematic or creative use of arbitrary symbol as abstraction representations of concept or object (philosophy)s and the distinct relationships in between, as they define both context and the narrower definition of terms.
The term "to kill a mockingbird symbolism " is often limited to use in contrast to " representationalism"; defining the general directions of a linear spectrum (disambiguation) wherin all symbolic concepts can be viewed in relation, and where changes in context may imply systemic changes to individual and collective definitions of symbols.
www.constructionism.info /Collage.html   (1289 words)

  
 Jorge Luis Borges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nightglow: Borges' poetics of blindness / Yudin, Florence., 1997
The Borges tradition / Di Giovanni, Norman Thomas., 1995
The prose of Jorge Luis Borges: existentialism and the dynamics of surprise / Agheana, Ion Tudro., 1984
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges   (5728 words)

  
 Map Encyclopedia Article @ Persisted.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
A map is a simplified depiction of a space which highlights relations between components (objects, regions) of that space.
This concept is elaborated in a one-paragraph story by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, generally known in English as "On Exactitude in Science".
Road maps are perhaps the most widely used maps today, and form a subset of navigational maps, which also include aeronautical and nautical charts, railroad network maps, and hiking and bicycling maps.
www.persisted.net /encyclopedia/Map   (2311 words)

  
 Alan Smeaton's Research
word sense disambiguation techniques on the Brown Corpus and performance was quite good.
This thread of work is still continuing in the group and we will soon apply lexical chaining, a technique to identify the "essence" of a segment of text, which we will use in document indexing.
BORGES: In Jan 1995 to July 1996 we worked on the BORGES project, funded by the CEC- LIBRARIES program on methods to deliver an information filtering service on USENET news.
www.compapp.dcu.ie /~asmeaton/research.html   (1171 words)

  
 Working Papers for 1996
The BORGES project was a research and development project part-funded by the European Commission under the LIBRARIES program which developed, implemented and evaluated an information filtering service for WWW pages and USENET news.
What made BORGES different from other IF applications was that it was user-driven and developed as a service provided by a University library.
The translation functions can be shown to be truth-preserving with respect to an independent semantics (and hence with respect to each other...) in the sense that the set of disambiguations obtained from a translation image of an f-structure coincides with the set of disambiguations obtained from the independent semantics for that f-structure.
www.compapp.dcu.ie /research/papers/1996.html   (3984 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
Luís Miguel Borges Soares, Luís Soares, (born 1977), Portuguese footballer
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same human name.
If an article link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Luis_Miguel   (280 words)

  
 Hearts And Minds -- Recommendations and Resources
The documentary premiered at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival and later went on to win the Academy Award for best documentary of the year, both before its release in the United States itself.
Part I, "A Sense of Self", begins with two works of fiction that challenge the notions of self and identity (including the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's "Borges and I"), forcing the reader to think more closesly about just what is meant by "self".
The mind article starts out with this statement about the mind: "it is often considered alongside such related notions as soul and spirit" which seems to put some distance between mind and soul.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/72/hearts-and-minds.html   (1274 words)

  
 Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
A character notes some practical difficulties with this map and states that "we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well".
This concept is elaborated in a one-paragraph story by Jorge Luis Borges, generally known in English as "On Exactitude in Science".
Road maps are perhaps the most widely used maps today, and form a subset of navigational maps, which also include aeronautical and nautical charts, railroad network maps, and hiking and bicycling maps.
www.clintongoveas.com /wikipedia/?title=Map   (2160 words)

  
 Foreign Dispatches: Meaning and Constitutional Flim-Flam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
The same point is also made by the upward and downward Lowenheim-Skolem theorems, showing that this ambiguity is not merely a feature of the sloppiness of ordinary language; where textual meaning is concerned, there is no "Ding an Sich" which can be understood directly by the senses without mediation through some the filter of intentionality.
The point is that without disambiguation through the discernment of the author's intention, it is entirely possible that said meaning as inferred by two parties can be radically different.
If I say that your FOL statement about the uncountable nature of the reals is actually some other statement about a countable set, nothing in the statement gives you grounds to believe your interpretation any more or less valid than mine, but we clearly aren't talking about the same thing.
foreigndispatches.typepad.com /dispatches/2005/07/constitutional_.html   (5013 words)

  
 Jorge Luis Borges on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
JAMES E. Ocampo, A. Casares (eds) Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Luis and Adolfo Bioy Casares Borges, J.
Also known as: Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo, Borges, Jean-Louis Borges, J.L. Borges, Jorge Borges, Jorge L. Borges, Jorge Louis Borges...
Disambiguation notice: Please do not combine De Aleph en andere verhalen with El Aleph.
www.librarything.com /author/borgesjorgeluis   (434 words)

  
 Labyrinth - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
The story has also since evolved into The Labyrinth (http://www.project-labyrinth.com) by Maja Hill - an interactive story using 3D computer graphics.
The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges was entranced with the idea of the labyrinth, and used it extensively throughout his short stories.
His modern literary use of the labyrinth has inspired a great many other authors in their own works (e.g.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Labyrinth   (1315 words)

  
 The End - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
The End, a short story by Jorge Luis Borges appearing in Ficciones
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/The_End   (307 words)

  
 CRUISE JORGE: Most actual news about Curioso el jorge and Gonzalez jorge.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
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 Russian Fairy Tales,
Full disambiguation of these uses belongs to the level of linguistic analysis and interpretation.
Full disambiguation of their uses also belongs to the level of linguistic analysis and interpretation, and is therefore discussed in chapter
Where punctuation marks are disambiguated by tagging the underlying feature they signal, it may be debated whether they should be excluded or left as part of the text.
www.tei-c.org /Vault/GL/P3/P3X/p3co.p3x   (10481 words)

  
 CHNM Essays
The narrator himself has wandered numerous rooms in search of enlightenment, but with resignation he simply awaits his death and burial — which Borges explains (with signature dark humor) consists of being tossed unceremoniously over the library's banister.
Borges's nightmare, of course, is a cursed vision of the research methods of disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy, where the careful reading of books, one after the other, is supposed to lead inexorably to knowledge and understanding.
You would still run into some disambiguation problems ("Saddam Hussein," "Iraq," and "Cheney" would show up a lot for both), but this method is actually quite a powerful start to document classification.
chnm.gmu.edu /resources/essays/d/40   (3167 words)

  
 Faculty of Humanities - Courses in the Department of Icelandic
Among the subjects touched upon will be morphological analysis, syntactic parsing, word sense disambiguation, information retrieval, spell and grammar checkers, speech recognition, speech synthesis, frequency studies, etc. Students will be trained in using simple programs for linguistic analysis.
The main objective of this course is to examine language use with special emphasis on theoretical aspects that should be of use in various jobs such as teaching, work in the media, publishing etc. The use of the Icelandic language from the perspective of pragmatics and discourse analysis will be explored.
The frame of reference is the literary tradition of Miguel Cervantes, Laurence Sterne, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, John Barth, and others but the main emphasis will be on Icelandic works of fiction by i.e.Eiríkur Laxdal, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Elías Mar, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Guðbergur Bergsson, Jakobína Sigurðardóttir, Pétur Gunnarsson, Vigdís Grímsdóttir, Sjón and Hermann Stefánsson.
www.hi.is /prog/catalogue/icelandic.html   (8226 words)

  
 >-- The Garden of Forking Paths --<: A Suggestion for Setting Up the Problem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
And it’s only about free will inasmuch as that particular term has been sufficiently disambiguated.
Given the various ways the term ‘free will’ has been used, however, it’s almost better to just drop the term altogether in favor of whichever particular disambiguation one is interested in.
So, as I see it, the problem of free will and determinism is really a problem about luck and control.
gfp.typepad.com /the_garden_of_forking_pat/2007/02/a_suggestion_fo.html   (5397 words)

  
 miscoranda - URI Design
John Wilkins even proposed an analytical language, a language whose words were ordered according to a grand classification scheme, later essayed upon so lucidly and humourously by Jorge Luis Borges.
Wilkins was a bit of a dreamer, or, as Borges put it, he was one who "abounded in happy curiosities: theology, cryptography, music, the fabrication of transparent beehives, the course of an invisible planet, the possibility of a trip to the moon, the possibility and principles of a world language".
It's not surprising that we should find the construction of a world language at the tail of the list since it has been proven again and again (and this is the whole point of Borges's essay) that there is no such thing as a universal classification scheme.
miscoranda.com /159   (3687 words)

  
 Aleph
The Aleph is also the title of a short story by author Jorge Luis Borges
The ALEPH detector (aka the ALEPH experiment) is one of the four detectors of the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/a/al/aleph.html   (213 words)

  
 Funes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
Funes the Memorious, a short story by Jorge Luis Borges
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
tags.lyricsfreak.com /Funes   (95 words)

  
 Learning Browsing Behavior Model for Web Recommendation (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
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16 A wordnet-based algorithm for word sense disambiguation - XIAOBIN, MATWIN et al.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /687466.html   (1167 words)

  
 Borges (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Borges is a common surname of Spanish and Portuguese language.
It is a name associated with a great number of different people, chiefly:
Norah Borges, Argentine artist, sister of Jorge Luis Borges
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Borges_(disambiguation)   (95 words)

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