Christopher Collins Books
Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture
Since 9/11, America has presented itself to the world as a Christianist culture, no less antimodern and nostalgic for an idealized past than its Islamist foes. The master-narrative both sides share...
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Collins shows that biblical narratives have inspired a multitude of nationalist narratives, myths ingeniously spun out to justify a number of decidedly unchristian policies and institutions--from I...
Read MoreHead-driven probabilistic parsing for word lattices.
This thesis presents the first application of the state-of-the-art head-driven statistical parsing model of Collins (1999) as a simultaneous language model and parser for large-vocabulary speech re...
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