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The services that digital libraries provide to users can be greatly enhanced by automatically gleaning certain kinds of information from the full text of the documents they contain. This paper reviews some recent work that applies novel techniques of machine learning (broadly interpreted) to extract information from plain text, and puts it in the context of digital library applications. We describe three areas: hierarchical phrase browsing, including efficient methods for inferring a phrase hierarchy from a large corpus of text; text mining using adaptive compression techniques, giving a new approach to generic entity extraction, word segmentation, and acronym extraction; and keyphrase extraction.
Interview data from the initial phase of "Monitoring Today's Schools," a research project to monitor the impact of New Zealand's educational restructuring, are examined.
Although the field of digital libraries is still young, digital library collections have been built around the world and are being deployed on numerous public web sites. But what is a digital library, exactly? In many respects the best way to characterize the notion is by extension, in terms of actual examples, rather than by intension as in a conventional definition. In a very real sense, digital libraries are whatever people choose to call by the term “digital library.”
Extremely thermophilic bacteria are those that grow optimally at 65 ℃ or higher. Comparative data are presented on extracellular proteases from two extremely thermophilic eubacteria and one extremely thermophilic archaebacterium. The eubacteria were a Bacillus isolate (protease unnamed) and a Thermus isolate (protease named caldolysin) with optimum growth temperatures of 65 ℃ and 75 ℃, respectively. The archaebacterium was a Desulfurococcus isolate (protease named archaelysin) with an optimum growth temperature of 88 ℃.
Espiegle's Bay: Grammatical Topics is a linguistic description of some of the grammatical features of the Espiegle's Bay language variety of North-West Malakula, Vanuatu. The data used for this project comprise 16 documents. 13 of these are transcriptions of recordings from two speakers of the language variety. The remaining documents consist of data elicited between 2011 to 2013 from the same two speakers. This description sketches the Espiegle's Bay language's nouns and nominal morphology, verbs and verbal morphology, clause structure, and valence operations. In addition to pronouns, there are three main noun classes: common nouns, personal nouns, and local nouns. Nominal modifiers appear post-nominally. Verbs are sub-divided into four main verb classes: inherently intransitive verbs, inherently transitive verbs, ambitransitive ve...
Like many other former colonies, Aotearoa/New Zealand has witnessed the assertion of the rights of the indigenous people, Maori, to be self-determining in an environment of Pakeha domination. (The term Pakeha is often used to describe white New Zealanders, most of whom are of British descent.) This has important implications for the development of social services where new models are being developed to better reflect Maori aspirations. One such model is parallel development.
A team led by Bernard Guerin is looking at the family and community impacts from contemporary forms of migration in a 6-year project Strangers in Town: Enhancing Family and Community in a More Diverse New Zealand Society, funded by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology. One large part of this research looks at Māori migration, headed by Linda Waimarie Nikora.
Since the research on the 'urban drift' of the 1950s and 1960s, little has been done to research the effects of Māori migration. Our aim is to draw together the researchers and research results and to conduct our own research to fill in the gaps. We also work with others on the 6-year project who are looking at the population statistics of Māori migration, especially Trans-Tasman migrations.
Three major characteristics in determining a potentially successful practicum were identified. Firstly, the importance of determining early on whether an agency can expose the student to the necessary counselling experience that enables students to meet the requirements of the course. Secondly, the importance of exposing students to information that enable them to efficiently achieve practicum placement goals. Thirdly, the need to utilise both reflective and skills based assessment to assess the development of counselling skills, as well as the completion of tasks and duties that are required of students. Further information was gleaned about the research participants' perspectives on supervision procedures, practicum contracts, benefits of having a practicum placement and suggested training areas for the proposed TWH supervision module.
The Maori and Psychology Research Unit was engaged in August 2001 to evaluate a
sexual health programme delivered by Te Ahurei a Rangatahi. Established in 1997,
Te Ahurei a Rangatahi is a community based charitable trust that delivers a variety of
programmes to Rangatahi.
The study of identities is an enormous and complex undertaking. Research on identity formation has revealed a clear link between family practices and identity development. In traditional Maori times, the whanau was the place where initial teaching and socialisation of things Maori took place. While there is no single exact measure of what constitutes Maori identity (Durie, 1994), that Maori identity is still being asserted today means that the shaping of Maori identity is still occurring. Rather than attempt to cover all aspects of how Maori shape their identities, I have chosen to focus on the shaping of Maori identity within whanau. Given that this paper is about both Maori identity and whanau identity it seemed logical to review and examine the literature surrounding these two notions. In this paper I also discuss the ecological thr...
