title: Trader sailor spy

authors: Samkin, Grant

subjects: Cape of Good Hope

abstract: Set at the Cape of Good Hope in the late eighteenth early nineteenth century, this study makes use of archival material from the Oriental and Indian Office Collection and the printed records of the Cape Colony to review the employment of John Pringle, an employee of the East India Company from his education through to his death. In addition to providing and intimate understanding of the diverse employee related activities of a single individual during this period, this study provides evidence of the profession of accountant in early trade directories. The paper also provides evidence that as an employer, the East Indian Company exercised a consumer control model of occupational control. By reviewing John Pringle’s early education and his activities, number of very early signals of movements can be identified that provide tentative evidence of progress towards occupational ascendancy occurring as early as the late eighteenth century.

text: Trader sailor spy Set at the Cape of Good Hope in the late eighteenth early nineteenth century, this study makes use of archival material from the Oriental and Indian Office Collection and the printed records of the Cape Colony to review the employment of John Pringle, an employee of the East India Company from his education through to his death. In addition to providing and intimate understanding of the diverse employee related activities of a single individual during this period, this study provides evidence of the profession of accountant in early trade directories. The paper also provides evidence that as an employer, the East Indian Company exercised a consumer control model of occupational control. By reviewing John Pringle’s early education and his activities, number of very early signals of movements can be identified that provide tentative evidence of progress towards occupational ascendancy occurring as early as the late eighteenth century.

year: 2005-12

title: Text categorisation using document profiling

authors: Sauban, Maximilien

subjects: computer science

abstract: This paper presents an extension of prior work by Michael D. Lee on psychologically plausible text categorisation. Our approach utilises Lee s model as a pre-processing filter to generate a dense representation for a given text document (a document profile) and passes that on to an arbitrary standard propositional learning algorithm. Similarly to standard feature selection for text classification, the dimensionality of instances is drastically reduced this way, which in turn greatly lowers the computational load for the subsequent learning algorithm. The filter itself is very fast as well, as it basically is just an interesting variant of Naive Bayes. We present different variations of the filter and conduct an evaluation against the Reuters-21578 collection that shows performance comparable to previously published results on that collection, but at a lower computational cost.

text: Text categorisation using document profiling This paper presents an extension of prior work by Michael D. Lee on psychologically plausible text categorisation. Our approach utilises Lee s model as a pre-processing filter to generate a dense representation for a given text document (a document profile) and passes that on to an arbitrary standard propositional learning algorithm. Similarly to standard feature selection for text classification, the dimensionality of instances is drastically reduced this way, which in turn greatly lowers the computational load for the subsequent learning algorithm. The filter itself is very fast as well, as it basically is just an interesting variant of Naive Bayes. We present different variations of the filter and conduct an evaluation against the Reuters-21578 collection that shows performance comparable to previously published results on that collection, but at a lower computational cost.

year: 2003

title: Telling “Us” in the “Days Destined to You: Response Life-Telling: Indigenous Oral Autobiography and the Performance of Relation

authors: Mahuika, Nepia

subjects: Arts & Humanities

abstract: This “tau-utuutu” (responsive) protocol feels familiar to me.² My turn to speak, to respond, to share in a conversation with Warren Cariou’s stimulating essay on “Life-Telling,” Indigenous autobiography, and Dovie Thomason. It reminds me of how life-telling, orality, and history, interweave and work in my tribal universe. At home, we take turns speaking. We inherit our words, we respond, carve, and weave new narratives—make them ours. Where I come from, lives are frequently “told,” sung, cried, carved, and performed, through tribal conversations, a chorus of textured tones, sometimes in a grand debate within which our personal and collective pasts, presents, and futures converge and diverge.³ I am glad, then, to be invited, to add my voice to this present discussion. It feels natural . . . normal . . . Native.

text: Telling “Us” in the “Days Destined to You: Response Life-Telling: Indigenous Oral Autobiography and the Performance of Relation This “tau-utuutu” (responsive) protocol feels familiar to me.² My turn to speak, to respond, to share in a conversation with Warren Cariou’s stimulating essay on “Life-Telling,” Indigenous autobiography, and Dovie Thomason. It reminds me of how life-telling, orality, and history, interweave and work in my tribal universe. At home, we take turns speaking. We inherit our words, we respond, carve, and weave new narratives—make them ours. Where I come from, lives are frequently “told,” sung, cried, carved, and performed, through tribal conversations, a chorus of textured tones, sometimes in a grand debate within which our personal and collective pasts, presents, and futures converge and diverge.³ I am glad, then, to be invited, to add my voice to this present discussion. It feels natural . . . normal . . . Native.

year: 2016