1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451880903321

Titolo

The African Union and its institutions [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Akokpari, Angela Ndinga-Muvumba and Tim Murithi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland Park, South Africa, : Fanele

[Cape Town], : Centre for Conflict Resolution, 2008

ISBN

1-920196-48-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AkokpariJohn <1957->

Ndinga-MuvumbaAngela

MurithiTimothy

Disciplina

341.249

Soggetti

Pan-Africanism

African cooperation

National security - Africa

Electronic books.

Africa Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. From the OAU to the AU : conceptual issues -- pt. 2. Peace and security -- pt. 3. Governance and civil society -- pt. 4. The Diaspora and external actors.

Sommario/riassunto

Written by eminent scholars on Africa and practitioners who have worked in or with the African Union (AU), this report brings together the analysis and research of 17 largely Pan-African scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and civil society representatives. A particularly timely and welcome addition to the pioneering literature about this young and potentially powerful institution, this analysis presents a positive but realistic picture of the AU while diagnosing several key challenges, including Africa's security and governance problems.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458910703321

Titolo

The expression of negation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Laurence R. Horn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, N.Y., : Mouton de Gruyter, c2010

ISBN

1-282-67305-X

9786612673054

3-11-021930-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Collana

The expression of cognitive categories ; ; 4

Classificazione

ET 670

Altri autori (Persone)

HornLaurence R

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives

Negation (Logic)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Typology of negation -- The Acquisition of Negation -- On the diachrony of negation -- Multiple negation in English and other languages -- Quantifier-negation interaction in English: A corpus linguistic study of all...not constructions -- Negative and positive polarity items: An investigation of the interplay of lexical meaning and global conditions on expression -- Negation as a metaphor-inducing operator -- Negation in Classical Japanese -- Negation and polarity in the new millennium: A bibliography -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many ways, it is negation that makes us human, imbuing us with the capacity to deny, to contradict, to misrepresent, to lie, and to convey irony.  The apparent simplicity of logical negation as a one-place operator that toggles truth and falsity belies the intricate complexity of the expression of negation in natural language. Not only do we find negative adverbs, verbs, copulas, quantifiers, and affixes, but the interaction of negation with other operators (including multiple iterations of negation itself) can be exceedingly complex to describe,



extending (as first detailed by Otto Jespersen) to negative concord, negative incorporation, and the widespread occurrence of negative polarity items whose distribution is subject to principles of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters in this book survey the patterning of negative utterances in natural languages, spanning such foundational issues as how negative sentences are realized cross-linguistically and how that realization tends to change over time, how negation is acquired by children, how it is processed by adults, and how its expression changes over time.  Specific chapters offer focused empirical studies of negative polarity, pleonastic negation, and negative/quantifier scope interaction, as well as detailed examinations of the form and function of sentential negation in modern Romance languages and Classical Japanese.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967101503321

Titolo

Indexing and retrieval of non-text information / / edited by Diane Rasmussen Neal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012

ISBN

9781283856621

128385662X

9783110260588

3110260581

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Collana

Knowledge and information, , 1868-842X

Classificazione

AN 95000

Altri autori (Persone)

PenningtonDiane Rasmussen

Disciplina

025.34

Soggetti

World Wide Web - Subject access

Indexing

Information retrieval

Information storage and retrieval systems - Nonbook materials

Information storage and retrieval systems - Audio-visual materials

Cataloging of nonbook materials

Cataloging of computer network resources

Cataloging of audio-visual materials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of contents -- Introduction to indexing and retrieval of non-text information / Rasmussen Neal, Diane -- Part I: Literature reviews and theoretical frameworks -- Chapter 1. Precedent or preference? The construction of genre and music recommender systems / Neal, Jason -- Chapter 2. Multilingual taxonomy development for ordinary images: Issues and challenges / Ménard, Elaine -- Chapter 3. Access to editorial cartoons: The state of the art / Landbeck, Chris -- Part II: Information behaviour studies -- Chapter 4. Information behaviour and music information retrieval systems: Using user accounts to guide design / Rasmussen Neal, Diane / Conroy, Niall -- Chapter 5. Seeking what we have yet to know: A user-centred approach to designing music knowledge platforms / Lam, Margaret / Ratto, Matt -- Chapter 6. Searching for music: End-user perspectives on system features / Salaba, Athena / Zhang, Yin -- Chapter 7. A user study of moving image retrieval systems and system design implications for library catalogues / Zhang, Yin / Salaba, Athena -- Part III: Empirical knowledge organization studies -- Chapter 8. An exploration of tags assigned to geotagged still and moving images on Flickr / Rorissa, Abebe / Rasmussen Neal, Diane / Muckell, Jonathan / Chaucer, Alex -- Chapter 9. Exploring the effectiveness of ontology based tagging versus free text tagging / Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Maayan / Bar-Ilan, Judit / Miller, Yitzchak / Shoham, Snunith -- Chapter 10. That obscure object of desire: Facets for film access and discovery / Barre, Kathryn La / de Novais Cordeiro, Rosa Inês -- Chapter 11. Designing and visualizing faceted geospatial ontologies from library knowledge organization systems / Buchel, Olha -- Part IV: Case studies -- Chapter 12. Subject indexing of images: Architectural objects with complicated history / Rygiel, Paweł -- Chapter 13. An image based retrieval system for engineering drawings / Abrantes Baracho, Renata Maria / Valadares Cendón, Beatriz -- Chapter 14. Emotion felt and depicted: Consequences for multimedia retrieval / Knautz, Kathrin -- Chapter 15. The critical role of the cold-start problem and incentive systems in emotional Web 2.0 services / Siebenlist, Tobias / Knautz, Kathrin -- Chapter 16. Non-textual information in gaming: A case study of World of Warcraft / Whippey, Caroline -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The scope of this volume will encompass a collection of research papers related to indexing and retrieval of online non-text information. In recent years, the Internet has seen an exponential increase in the number of documents placed online that are not in textual format. These documents appear in a variety of contexts, such as user-generated content sharing websites, social networking websites etc. and formats, includingphotographs, videos, recorded music, data visualizations etc. The prevalence of these contexts and data formats presents a particularly challenging task to information indexing