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  2. Wikipedia : You are probably not a lexicologist or a ...

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    Stephen Colbert is a much better source for a definition of truthiness than Webster's. Original sources may have a more nuanced and in-depth treatment of definitions; for example, Plato's Republic and other philosophic inquiries into the meaning of justice may occasionally outweigh dictionary citations. Then again, Plato is a published source ...

  3. Wikipedia:Essay directory - Wikipedia

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    Note: User essays are similar to essays placed in the Wikipedia namespace; however, they are often authored/edited by only one person, and may represent a strictly personal viewpoint about Wikipedia or its processes. The author of a personal essay located in their user space generally has the right to revert any changes made to it by any other ...

  4. List of PDF software - Wikipedia

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    Default PDF and file viewer for GNOME; replaces GPdf. Supports addition and removal (since v3.14), of basic text note annotations. CUPS: Apache License 2.0: No No No Yes Printing system can render any document to a PDF file, thus any Linux program with print capability can produce PDF files Pdftk: GPLv2: No Yes Yes

  5. Roget's Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Conceiving that such a compilation might help to supply my own deficiencies, I had, in the year 1805, completed a classed catalogue of words on a small scale, but on the same principle, and nearly in the same form, as the Thesaurus now published. [4] Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. [5]

  6. OpenThesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap

  7. On Bullshit - Wikipedia

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    Frankfurt originally published the essay "On Bullshit" in the Raritan Quarterly Review in 1986. Nineteen years later, it was published as the book On Bullshit (2005), which proved popular among lay readers; the book appeared for 27 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list [3] and was discussed on the television show The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, [4] [5] as well as in an online interview.

  8. Word-sense disambiguation - Wikipedia

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    The success rate for part-of-speech tagging algorithms is at present much higher than that for WSD, state-of-the art being around 96% [8] accuracy or better, as compared to less than 75% [citation needed] accuracy in word sense disambiguation with supervised learning. These figures are typical for English, and may be very different from those ...

  9. Subject (documents) - Wikipedia

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    A user may want a document about a subject, which is different from the one intended by its author. From the point of view of information systems, the subject of a document is related to the questions that the document can answer for the users (cf. the distinction between a content oriented and a request-oriented approach).