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	Sphinx - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Sphinx is an image of a recumbent lion with the head of a ram, of a falcon or of a person, invented by the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom, but a cultural import in Greek mythology.
		As a sphinx it has the body of a lion and the head of a human being, and is not to be confused with Narasimha, the 4th reincarnation of the deity Mahavishnu; this avatara or incarnation is depicted with a human body and the head of a lion.
		Such Sphinxes were revived when the grottesche or "grotesque" decorations of the unearthed "Golden House" (Domus Aurea) of Nero were brought to light in late 15th century Rome, and she was incorporated into the classical vocabulary of arabesque designs that was spread throughout Europe in engravings during the 16th and 17th centuries.
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Sphinx (1677 words)

	Sphinx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Egyptian sphinx is an ancient iconic mythical creature usually comprised of a recumbent lion – an animal with sacred solar associations – with a human head, usually that of a pharaoh.
		Avenue of sphinxes at [[Karnak]] The largest and most famous is the Great Sphinx of Giza, which is on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River, facing due east, with a small temple between its paws.
		Such Sphinxes were revived when the grottesche or "grotesque" decorations of the unearthed "Golden House" (''Domus Aurea) of Nero were brought to light in early 16th century Rome, and She was incorporated into the vocabulary of arabesque designs that was spread throughout Europe in engravings during the 16th and 17th centuries.
	sphinx.area51.ipupdater.com (774 words)

	Sphinx - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
		Sphinx is an iconic image of a recumbent lion with the head of a ram, of a falcon or of a person, invented by the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom, but a cultural import in Greek mythology.
		Such Sphinxes were revived when the grottesche or "grotesque" decorations of the unearthed "Golden House" (Domus Aurea) of Nero were brought to light in late 15th century Rome, and she was incorporated into the classical vocabulary of arabesque designs that was spread throughout Europe in engravings during the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Sphinxes often appear in fantasy literature and role-playing games as races or species of monstrous creatures with the head of a person and the body of a lion, usually also with a pair of wings or the hind quarters of a bull.
	www.medbib.com /Sphinx (1125 words)

	Sphinx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Egyptian sphinx is an ancient iconic mythical creature usually comprised of a recumbent lion — animal with sacred solar associations — with a human head, usually that of a pharaoh.
		Sphinxes were too somber perhaps for the Rococo, and they tended to disappear from the European design repertory - until revived in the 19th century with its romanticism, and later symbolism.
		^ Lowell Edmunds, The Sphinx in the Oedipus Legend, 1981.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sphinx (1157 words)

	Sphinx
		The Egyptian sphinx is an ancient iconic mythical creature usually comprised of a recumbent lion Äì an animal with sacred solar associations Äì with a human head, usually that of a pharaoh.
		She was represented in vase-painting and bas-reliefs most often seated upright rather than recumbent, as a winged lion with a woman's head; or she was a woman with the paws, claws and breasts of a lion, a serpent's tail and birdlike wings.
		Hera or Ares sent the Sphinx from her Ethiopian homeland (for the Greeks remembered the Sphinx's foreign origins) to sit outside Thebes and ask all passersby history's most famous riddle: "Which creature in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three?" She strangled anyone unable to answer.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Sphinx.php (881 words)

	Sphinx (Egypt) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sphinx (Egypt) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Greek Sphinx of Thebes was winged with a woman's breasts, and was adopted as an emblem of wisdom.
		Subsequently it was imitated on a smaller scale, and avenues of sphinxes frequently flanked the approaches to temples.
		The Great Sphinx has been buried by sand and dug out on a number of occasions; one such event is recorded by an 18th dynasty inscription.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Sphinx+(Egypt) (355 words)

	Sphinx (disambiguation) - Marvel Universe: The definitive online source for Marvel super hero bios.
		Sphinx (disambiguation) - Marvel Universe: The definitive online source for Marvel super hero bios.
		Sphinx (Anath-Na Mut) - immortal being, frequent foe of Fantastic Four
		Sphinx (Meryet Karim) - found Anath-Na Mut in the desert accidently got part of his power.
	www.marvel.com /universe/Sphinx (113 words)

	sphinx resource page - the sphinx
		Corinthian Sphinx 7th century BC There was a single Sphinx in Greek mythology, a unique demon of destruction and bad luck, according to Hesiod a daughter of the Chimaera and Orthrus, or, according to others, of Typhon and Echidna— all of these chthonic figures.
		She was represented in vase-painting and bas-reliefs most often seated upright rather than recumbent, as a winged lion with a woman's head; or she was a woman with the paws, claws and breasts of a lion, a serpent's tail and birdlike wings.
		Hera or Ares sent the Sphinx from her Ethiopian homeland (for the Greeks remembered the Sphinx's foreign origins) to sit outside Thebes and ask all passersby history's most famous riddle: "Which creature in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three?" She strangled anyone unable to answer.
	www.bizhisto.com /Po-to-Wo/sphinx.php (1213 words)

	Sphinx - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sphinx
		The Sphinx has one hundred and fifty qualifications for impassiveness which you lack.
		Arriving at Thebes he answered the riddle of the Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their deliverer king.
		Coming through the bushes by the White Sphinx were the heads and shoulders of men running.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /sphinx (410 words)

	Egypt - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This word may in turn be derived from the ancient Egyptian phrase ḥwt-k3-ptḥ ("Hwt ka Ptah") meaning "home of the Ka (part of the soul) of Ptah," the name of a temple of the god Ptah at Memphis.
		The Great Sphinx of Giza, with the Pyramid of Khafre in the background are at the heart of Egypt's thriving tourism industry.
		The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Egypt (3882 words)

	Cat Sphinx
		Sphinx cattery, sphynx cattery, sphinx breeder, sphynx breeder, hairless cat breeder, hairless kitten breeder, hairless sphinx breeder, hairless sphynx.
		In ancient Egypt, the Sphinx is a male statue of a lion with the head of a human.
		Her name is Sphinx and she was adopted from the Anti-Cruelty Society of Chicago in the.
	petresource.info /cat_sphinx.html (628 words)

	Adventure Lantern :: View topic - Sphinx: a freeware, misspelled Adventure
		In the middle of the city, among skyscrapers and subway stations, someone is digging up an ancient, enormous sphinx, and the statue is causing political and religious tensions to boil over.
		Back in November on the AGS Forums, Andail proposed a "Massive AGS Project", a game that would be developed by many different people from the adventure game community working together.
		All the work is on a Wiki, so that anyone can contribute just by going to the website and posting their additions and changes.
	www.adventurelantern.com /Forum/viewtopic.php?t=255 (835 words)

	nlpcstasks
		Automatic word sense disambiguation using a WordNet-based algorithm: This project involved determining the word sense of polysemous and homonymous nouns by examining their occurrence in verbal contexts.
		This approach is implemented in Perl/Tk, employs lookup-tables and regular expressions for pattern matching, and produces (and leverages) a strokewise decomposition of characters recognitionally and in generation.
		Word sense disambiguation through analogical modeling: This project was the first attempt to perform word sense disambiguation using Skousen's analogical language modeling technique.
	linguistics.byu.edu /classes/ling581dl/egnlpprojs.htm (2879 words)

	Breeders Cat Sphinx
		The true Sphinx is a stone monument carved from the bedrock of the Giza.
		I read a column about a sphinx cat that was constipated, the owner took the animal to the vet and discovered the.
		Roswell is a fl and white Sphinx, While on tour here at Tenuki you may. Siamese siamese Sphynx sphynx cat cats kitten kittens cattery breeders for.
	petresource.info /breeders_cat_sphinx.html (447 words)

	Marvel Universe:Wanted - Marvel Universe: The definitive online source for Marvel super hero bios.
		Kerosene (disambiguation) should be Captain Kerosene jstephens moved it to the wrong place.
		Sabreclaw should be moves as he is not main universe character.
		There is a list of disambig pages at special:disambiguations that shows the links to each page.
	www.marvel.com /universe/Marvel_Universe:Wanted (682 words)

	Sphinx (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sphinx, an iconic image of a recumbent lion with a human head in Egyptian and Greek mythology
		Sphinx (Marc Quinn sculpture), a sculpture of the model Kate Moss by the artist Marc Quinn
		Sphinx (rock), a natural rock formation, famous tourist attraction in the Bucegi subdivision of the Carpathian Mountains
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sphinx_(disambiguation) (211 words)

	%!PS-Adobe-3.0
		In addition, they can contain spelling errors due to the fact some words with different meanings are pronounced the same (such as "meet" and "meat", or "discussed" and "disgust"), and, in the case of Sphinx often mistake other words for locations (for example, Lahore is often substituted for another word).
		Although the results described in the previous section are promising, there are many areas in which the geocoding algorithm could be improved.
		Apart from the entity extractor one other major source of error is the disambiguation procedure.
	www-2.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/user/alex/www/ESRI99.htm (3591 words)

	Labeling with Full Acoustic Models (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		There are other accessible training systems out there, HTK being the most famous, but SphinxTrain is the one we are most familiar with, and we have some control over its updates so can better ensure it remains appropriate for our synthesis labeling task.
		SphinxTrain (and sphinx) have a number of restrictions which we need to keep in mind when labeling a set of prompts.
		Specifically, sphinx folds case on all phoneme names, so the scripts ensure that phone names are distinct irrespective of upper and lower case.
	www.festvox.org /festvox/bsv-sphinx-sect.html (1325 words)

	Riddle Encyclopedia Article @ UJest.net (U Jest) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the Hebrew Bible, the hero Samson proposes a riddle to the Philistines, which centered around Samson's discovery of honey in the carcass of a lion.
		(Judges 14) In Greek mythology, riddles were the province of the Sphinx, a female monster who challenged passersby with riddles; those who failed to guess them were devoured.
		Any unable to answer was strangled by the sphinx, until Oedipus answered man, who crawls on four legs as a baby, walks on two during adulthood, and uses a cane during old age.
	www.ujest.net /encyclopedia/Riddle (1197 words)

	Qwika - similar:Athanasius_Kircher
		Frontispiece to Kircher's Oedipus Ægyptiacus; the Sphinx, confronted by Oedipus/Kircher's learning, admits he has solved her riddle.
		For other uses see Quarantine (disambiguation) Quarantine is enforced isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous (often...
		Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Athanasius_Kircher (1629 words)

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		Details on the disambiguation strategies are provided in Appendix B. Researchers at Hewlett Packard REF _Ref23583039 \r \h [9] have applied some aspects of the USI paradigm to the acoustic domain, designing a system whereby the most acoustically distinguishable words are chosen through search for an application.
		Sphinx REF _Ref23613499 \r \h [13] is an automatic speech recognition system that captures the speaker’s speech and decodes it into its best hypothesis.
		Sphinx, Phoenix, and Festival, are all three open-source free-software programs that are used in James without modification.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~dgroup/papers/tom_proposal.doc (6484 words)

	cat sphinx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A Sphinx is an iconic image of a recumbent lion with the head of a ram, bird, or human, invented by the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom, but a cultural import in archaic Greek mythology, where it received its name (Greek Î£ÏÎ¹Î³Î¾, "strangler").
		The best known is the Great Sphinx of Giza.
		The largest and most famous is the Great Sphinx of Giza, sited on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River, facing due east, with a small temple between its paws.
	26088-sphinx.88.dazzlestops.com (551 words)

	Performance Report
		However, some of the intentionally inane sentences used to check the tagger's ability to reject things outside its domain (will you marry me? is typical) were removed, since the current system is not statistical, and runs no risk at all of classifying these sentences as useful.
		No current tests on Sphinx are included, since the project focused on building a text-to-text system with voice capability, rather than a voice-to-text system.
		First, the accuracy of the selector is mostly dependent on the number of parses to choose from, since it has no real disambiguation heuristics.
	www.cs.rochester.edu /~brown/242/assts/termprojs/micha/docs/performance.html (913 words)

	Speech recognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Some sets of utterances can sound the same, but can only be disambiguated by an appeal to context: one famous T-shirt worn by Apple Computer Researchers made this point: I helped Apple wreck a nice beach, which, When spoken, sounds like I helped Apple recognize speech.
		Using common sense and context to disambiguate cases like this can be considered a separate field of inquiry: natural language understanding.
		In particular, statistical language models are often employed for disambiguation and improvement of the recognition accuracies.
	speech-recognition.iqnaut.net (2682 words)

	Sphinx Cats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		See also Sphinx (disambiguation) Two Sphynx cats in a basket.
		A maculopapular eruption with clinical and histological features similar to those previously described in Sphinx cats under the name of urticaria pigmentosa...
		Most Sphinx moth cats will burrow underground and excavate a chamber lined with a small amount of silk.
	tipard.info /sphinx-cats (384 words)

	Napoleon I of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		While Napoleon had massive success against the native Mamluk army (his 25,000 strong invading force defeated a 100,000 army), his fleet in Egypt was largely destroyed by Nelson at The Battle of the Nile, so that Napoléon became land-bound.
		According to an enduring myth, while in Egypt, Napoleon ordered his troops to use the Sphinx for target practice, destroying its nose in the process.
		Though the origin of this myth is unclear, it is thought to have been perpetuated by guides native to the region, and also, no doubt, by scholars who find in it an expression of the West's brutish and essentially myopic disregard for the culture of the rest of the world.
	napoleon-i-of-france.kiwiki.homeip.net (3127 words)

	Ark
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
		It penciled memoranda were the fresh, first impressions that would presently down in the very midst of that care-free little company that frolicked now; but to us they are as alive and young to-day as when they followed before the Sphinx, impressed and awed by its "five thousand slow- serious, humorous, sometimes profane.
		Others are statistical, them, with a pride not always justified by the result.
	www.wordlookup.net /ar/ark.html (279 words)

	Cursed
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
		sphinx and the cursed mummy walk through gamecube
		sphinx and the cursed mummy walk through ps2
	www.paleorama.com /Horror-C/Cursed.php (612 words)

	Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion
		Both of these should be disambiguation pages rather than link to a specific article.
		There is no possibility of confusion with an encyclopedia topic (but if there ever is, we solve that via disambiguation, not deletion).
		Target is itself a dab page; the candidate for deletion used to be an identical copy (including Discussion page) of the target; there are at present no links to the candidate for deletion maf 11:29, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_WP:RFD (4896 words)

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		The play was the second of Sophocles' to be produced, but its events occur before those of Oedipus at Colonus or Antigone.
		The subject of the play is Oedipus, son of King Laius of Thebes and Queen Jocasta ; a mythical Polybus of Corinth and his wife Merope oracle Sphinx Tiresias Creon, Jocasta's brother, to overthrow him.
		OEM is an acronym with several meanings: OEM can mean OEM can mean.
	www.en-cyclopedia.com /index1/oe (190 words)

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