From exemptions to censorship: religious liberty and victimhood in Obergefell v. Hodges

This article analyzes the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, showing that a subset of the dissent constructed devout religious groups as victims to rearticulate power relations between the state, LGBT groups, and religious entities. This rearticulation is possible as a consequence of ambiguity in the legal concept of religious liberty, which is explored in depth. That ambiguity is employed to mount an argument against the decision, moving LGBT individuals from oppressed to oppressor of religious groups. The study contextualizes this inversion against the material and symbolic conditions of both the LGBT and devout Christian communities in the United States.     

Spatial Discovery of Linked Research Datasets and Documents at a Spatially Enabled Research Library

Current publishing practices in academia tend to result in datasets that are difficult to discover. This is because datasets are not well-integrated across academic domains and they are often not linked to the documents that reference them. For these reasons, discovering datasets across domains can be challenging; for example, discovering archeological observations and biological specimens using the same search is not widely supported, even if both datasets share a similar spatial extent, like Mesoamerica. It is also challenging to retrieve relevant documents that reference datasets; for example, retrieving a series of field reports that reference archeological observations is typically not supported. Our work develops an extensible method for: (1) geographically integrating collections across disciplinary repositories and (2) connecting datasets to related documents. We describe a collection of spatially-referenced researcher datasets, capturing their metadata elements and encoding them as linked open data. We then leverage existing library services to formalize links from datasets to documents. The system described in this work has been deployed, resulting in an experimental open data site for the UCSB campus. Results indicate that this system can be scaled-up with support from an institutional repository in the near future.     

Of Frogs & Rhetoric: The Atrazine Wars

In a scientific dispute over the effects of atrazine on amphibians, chemical industry–funded and publically funded scientists present stunningly contrasting constructions of atrazine's environmental concentrations, persistence, and potential to harm. Considerable scientific uncertainties and variable ranges allow authors to construct preferred versions of the story of atrazine. These incommensurate rhetorical constructions, more the result of competing economic and environmental interests than of any paradigmatic misalignments, have prolonged the dispute not only over atrazine's effects but also over whether its sales should be banned.     

重言管窥

重言源远流长,应用广泛普遍。它结构独特,灵活多样;它短小凝炼,鲜明生动,往往起到画龙点睛的作用。通过重言来构词或构形,是汉语悠久的历史传统,也是具有鲜明民族特色的语汇、语法现象。在文学创作中,重言运用一直被当作主要的语言表现手法之一。重言的意义不仅表现在语言、文学上,而且渗进更广泛、深刻而根本的中国“社会传统”和“心理习惯”之中。它成为一种文化现象,对中国语言及文学、文化的历史、现实与未来产生重要的影响。     

技术知识的跨领域应用及潜在技术方案的识别

[目的/意义]针对企业实施技术创新战略时所面临的技术发展趋势不明朗、技术瓶颈难以突破的问题,提出一种跨领域寻找潜在技术方案的研究方法,引导企业利用跨领域研究方法解决复杂技术问题,保证技术创新的顺利进行。[方法/过程]以知识在技术领域间的流动为切入点,引入语义TRIZ中的知识发现理论,将专利摘要中抽取的SAO结构分别与P&S主题、技术领域进行匹配,绘制技术地图,描述技术知识跨领域应用现状,识别潜在技术方案。[结果/结论]以3D生物打印技术为例进行的实证分析表明,随着技术的不断发展,技术问题和技术方案的种类不断增加,技术问题在追加技术领域中的分布较为分散,而技术方案在主要技术领域中的分布更为集中。识别出的潜在技术方案具有一定的合理性和可靠性,可为企业技术创新活动的顺利进行提供更为清晰的指导和决策支持。     

Using LSA and text segmentation to improve automatic Chinese dialogue text summarization

Automatic Chinese text summarization for dialogue style is a relatively new research area. In this paper, Latent Semantic Analysis （LSA） is first used to extract semantic knowledge from a given document, all question paragraphs are identified, an automatic text segmentation approach analogous to Text＇filing is exploited to improve the precision of correlating question paragraphs and answer paragraphs, and finally some ＂important＂ sentences are extracted from the generic content and the question-answer pairs to generate a complete summary. Experimental results showed that our approach is highly efficient and improves significantly the coherence of the summary while not compromising informativeness.     

The rhetorical force of “global archival memory”: (Re)Situating archives along the global memoryscape

ABSTRACT

This essay engages the possibilities and pitfalls of UNESCO’s Memory of the World program for fostering “global archival memory.” Archives function as rhetorical weapons for both political control and social justice within national and regional contexts. The constitution of global archival memory shifts archives’ borders beyond nation-bound contexts, creating space for contention, deliberation, and debate within a presentist transnational arena. Approaching archives as symbols capable of marshaling cross-cultural identifications furthers memory scholars’ conceptions of transnational memories and communities. It responds to rhetorical scholars’ calls to further engage archives, while drawing on archival studies, memory studies, and rhetorical theories of memory.     

语义分类的学科主题演化分析方法研究——以我国图书情报领域大数据研究为例

[目的/意义] 学科主题演化研究有助于掌握学科发展现状、研究热点、研究前沿和发展趋势等情况,是进行科技创新的基础,是面向科技创新的重要研究方向。[方法/过程] 提出一种语义分类的学科主题演化分析方法：将关键词分为研究问题、研究方法和研究技术3类,构建不同语义分类的共词网络;然后基于Fast Unfolding社区发现算法识别具有语义特征的社区（主题）;利用相似度算法计算相邻子时期主题间的相似度,构建学科主题演化图谱,以分析某学科领域研究问题、研究方法和研究技术的变化,实现深度、细致的学科主题演化分析。[结果/结论] 通过对2012-2015年CNKI数据库收录的我国大数据研究领域相关论文数据的处理分析,证明该方法的准确性和有效性。     

基于条件随机场的学术期刊中理论的自动识别方法

[目的/意义]从学术期刊中抽取其中的理论是对文献进行内容分析的前提,实现理论名称识别的自动化可以提高内容分析的效率。[方法/过程]将理论识别视为一类命名实体识别问题,总结现有的命名实体识别的常用方法,提出一个基于语义泛化思想的命名实体识别方法,选取词性、知网义原等外部知识,采用CRF模型对《情报学报》1822篇论文的标题和摘要进行实验。[结果/结论]实验表明,识别准确率最高达到95.38%,但召回率较低;训练语料规模对性能影响较大,不同程度的语义泛化方法对准确率和召回率有复杂影响。如何选择语义特征、语义标注和语义消歧是需要解决的新问题。     

基于关联开放数据的数字文化资源语义融合方法研究——欧洲数字图书馆案例分析

[目的/意义] 通过对国内外数字文化资源语义融合相关研究成果的总结和Europeana案例分析,为国内数字文化资源整合的研究与实践提供参考和借鉴。[方法/过程] 选取目前发展较为成熟的数字文化资源整合项目Europeana作为案例,分别从资源内容描述规则、语义知识本体模型设计、元数据语义化操作和关联数据的发布与访问4个方面对其数字文化资源语义融合的实现方法进行分析。[结果/结论] 研究发现,构建聚合式元数据模型、建立细粒度语义概念模型、创建开放的语义关联数据网络、提供泛在化关联数据应用服务是实现数字文化资源语义融合的关键。