He’d hoped to chronicle the company’s long-awaited overhaul of its online unabridged dictionary, the first major undertaking ...

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The dictionary has found its utility in the desire to attach meaning to each new word. But in the digital age, the dictionary ...

Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, ...

Rather than fixate on the "yes you are — no you aren’t" debate, more are discovering fresh spiritual strength through ...

The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more ...

A set of linear pathways often does not capture the full range of behaviors of a metabolic network. The concept of ‘elementary flux modes’ provides a mathematical tool to define and comprehensively ...

Abstract: Improving the quality of microseismic recordings is a critical step in the microseismic data processing. We introduce a wavelet-weighted online dictionary learning (WWODL) denoising strategy ...

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Some dictionaries are still printed but, increasingly, the reference books have moved online. And, as Stefan Fatsis describes ...

Abstract: Both online and off, people frequently perform particular social roles. These roles organize behavior and give structure to positions in local networks. As more of social life becomes ...

A word which baffled producers of a hit BBC competition when it was used by Welsh participants is among 10 Welsh words to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update. Fin told the ...