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Friday, 8th February 2002

9507090

Natural Language Processing--Experimental Projects
Summarization Software
Source: Online Journalism Review
NewsBlaster from Columbia University
NewsBlaster is an experimental prototype that uses natural language processing and other AI software to automatically generate text summaries. These summaries are built from content gathered using 13 web-based news sources including the Washington Post, CNN, Reuters, others. Officially, the site is described as an, "automatic system for event tracking and summarization".
See Also: Direct to the NewsBlaster Demo
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Humanities Computing--Canada
Text Analysis
Souce: Chronicle of Higher Education
Canadian Universities Will Create an Online Portal for Studying Texts
"Scholars at six Canadian universities will create an online portal for researchers in that nation -- and perhaps around the world -- who study electronic texts.The Text Analysis Portal for Research will offer access to databases of electronic texts and software for studying them. In addition, each of the six participating universities will create laboratories equipped with scanners, computers, and other hardware and software that scholars could use to study texts."
See Also: Direct to the Text Analysis Portal for Research

Academic Libraries
Source: The Batallion 2/7/02 (Texas A&M University)
Collection Development: Playboy in the Academic Library
This is not a new issue in the library world. The lead of the story reads, "Partly funded by student fees, Playboy magazine is available to students and any member of the community who purchases Sterling C. Evans Library cards for themselves and their children." Also from the article, "The current periodicals section of the Evans library contains magazines and journals that enhance and relate to areas of student and faculty's research and studies. For nearly 30 years, Playboy magazine has been included in this collection, said Charles Gilreath, Evans' associate university librarian for advanced studies...Gilreath stressed that the library's collection of periodicals reflects the needs and interests of students, staff and faculty. "A large academic library will have a large variety of periodicals," he said.
See Also: "Students 'checking out' Playboy, Playgirl at Stanford" (via UWire 10/14/01)

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items)
Poverty--Statistics--Database
Source: World Bank
DAPeR: Data for the Analysis for Poverty Reduction
Country data, create tables. Material can be downloaded into Excel format.
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Philanthropy Research
Fundraising Research
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