Science-fiction Studies, Issues 29-31SFS Publications., 1983 - Science fiction |
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Page 11
... language spoken by the various participants often reaches a level of absurdity and nonsense . Do you think that our language has problems ? That the human language is in crisis ? Lem . Most probably so . But I want to make it clear that ...
... language spoken by the various participants often reaches a level of absurdity and nonsense . Do you think that our language has problems ? That the human language is in crisis ? Lem . Most probably so . But I want to make it clear that ...
Page 306
... language of secrecy and indirection used by the diplomatic milieu of Gethen in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness ( LHD ) . Yet Genly Ai and Estraven , though belonging to different planets , do create the bonds of friendship ...
... language of secrecy and indirection used by the diplomatic milieu of Gethen in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness ( LHD ) . Yet Genly Ai and Estraven , though belonging to different planets , do create the bonds of friendship ...
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... language interfaces , " McDermott complains , are taken for granted , albeit none have been written and natural language is a notoriously difficult problem in AI ; any tentative approach to simulating ways of understanding very simple ...
... language interfaces , " McDermott complains , are taken for granted , albeit none have been written and natural language is a notoriously difficult problem in AI ; any tentative approach to simulating ways of understanding very simple ...
Contents
ARTICLES | 7 |
James Gunn The Gatekeepers | 13 |
Martin Bridgstock A Psychological Approach to Hard | 50 |
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