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30-739: British scholar specializing in Slavic Literature Rachel Polonsky Nationality British Occupation Writer Academic work Discipline Slavic Literature Rachel Polonsky is a British scholar specializing in Slavic Literature. Her books include Molotov's Magic Lantern and English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance . She

60-584: A 2017 project that added biomedical papers and topic summaries, the Semantic Scholar corpus included more than 40 million papers from computer science and biomedicine . In March 2018, Doug Raymond, who developed machine learning initiatives for the Amazon Alexa platform, was hired to lead the Semantic Scholar project. As of August 2019 , the number of included papers metadata (not the actual PDFs) had grown to more than 173 million after

90-632: A 45 million papers corpus in computer science, neuroscience and biomedicine). Each paper hosted by Semantic Scholar is assigned a unique identifier called the Semantic Scholar Corpus ID (abbreviated S2CID). The following entry is an example: Liu, Ying; Gayle, Albert A; Wilder-Smith, Annelies; Rocklöv, Joacim (March 2020). "The reproductive number of COVID-19 is higher compared to SARS coronavirus". Journal of Travel Medicine . 27 (2). doi : 10.1093/jtm/taaa021 . PMID   32052846 . S2CID   211099356 . Semantic Scholar

120-491: A journey in Russian history Translated into Italian as La lanterna magica di Molotov : viaggio nella storia della Russia Translated into Dutch by Nico Groen; Marianne Tieleman; Ansfried Scheifes as Molotovs toverlantaarn : een reis door de Russische geschiedenis Translated into Polish by Marek Król; as Latarnia magiczna Mołotowa : podróże w historię Rosji Polonsky, Rachel. English Literature and

150-474: A square wave representing the battlements of a castle. The black castellation round the arms marks the college's location on Castle Hill . The three stars are borrowed from the Murray coat of arms, while the heraldic dolphin symbolises a youthful spirit of exploration and discovery, and a kindly intelligence. The college had designed a new logo to mark its transition from New Hall to Murray Edwards College. It

180-401: Is Research Feeds, an adaptive research recommender that uses AI to quickly learn what papers users care about reading and recommends the latest research to help scholars stay up to date. It uses a state-of-the-art paper embedding model trained using contrastive learning to find papers similar to those in each Library folder. Semantic Scholar also offers Semantic Reader, an augmented reader with

210-1346: Is Vice-President of Murray Edwards College of the University of Cambridge , where she is a Fellow in Slavonic Studies; Graduate Tutor in Modern Languages/ Slavonic Studies (Russian). Education [ edit ] MA in English (Jesus College, University of Cambridge) MA Russian Studies (Princeton University) D.Phil (Oxford University) with a thesis on the reception of English literature in early 19th century Russia Career [ edit ] Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Independent scholar and freelance journalist in Moscow Fellow of Murray Edwards since 2011 Bibliography [ edit ] Polonsky, Rachel. Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 ISBN   9780374211974 Translated into Chinese by Chuangchuang Lu as Cong Mosike dao Gulage : Eluosi li shi shang de guang hui yu hei an = Molotov's magic lantern :

240-565: Is designed to highlight the most important and influential elements of a paper. The AI technology is designed to identify hidden connections and links between research topics. Like the previously cited search engines, Semantic Scholar also exploits graph structures, which include the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph , Springer Nature's SciGraph , and the Semantic Scholar Corpus (originally

270-422: Is different from Wikidata Articles with hCards Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Murray Edwards College Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge . It was founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008. The name honours a gift of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, and

300-488: Is estimated that only half of this literature is ever read. Artificial intelligence is used to capture the essence of a paper, generating it through an "abstractive" technique. The project uses a combination of machine learning , natural language processing , and machine vision to add a layer of semantic analysis to the traditional methods of citation analysis , and to extract relevant figures, tables , entities, and venues from papers. Another key AI-powered feature

330-402: Is free to use and unlike similar search engines (i.e. Google Scholar ) does not search for material that is behind a paywall . One study compared the index scope of Semantic Scholar to Google Scholar, and found that for the papers cited by secondary studies in computer science, the two indices had comparable coverage, each only missing a handful of the papers. As of January 2018, following

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360-665: The Darwin family gave their home, "The Orchard", to the College. This new site was located on Huntingdon Road, about a mile from the centre of Cambridge. The architects chosen were Chamberlin, Powell and Bon , who are known for their design of the Barbican in London, and fundraising commenced. The building work began in 1964 and was completed by W. & C. French in 1965. The new college could house up to 300 students. In 1967, one of

390-642: The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. ). The artwork can be seen throughout College, and students are encouraged to request pieces to be brought into their bedrooms as decoration. The New Hall Art Collection was started in the early 1990s, when New Hall had few pieces of art and most of them were portraits of old gentleman. The college president wrote to 100 women artists and asked each to donate one piece of art, and more than 75% of

420-470: The 2006 announcement that the University of Oxford's last remaining women-only college, St Hilda's , would also admit men, Cambridge is the only United Kingdom university that partially maintains a female-only student admissions policy, represented by Newnham and Murray Edwards. The fellowship and staff at Murray Edwards College are recruited from all genders. There is no bar to male students frequenting

450-704: The Russian Aesthetic Renaissance . Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press,1998. ISBN   9780521027472 References [ edit ] ^ Official CV at Murray Edwards College ^ Grossman, Joan Delaney (2000). "BOOK REVIEWS - English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance". Slavic Review . 59 : 242. doi : 10.2307/2696961 . JSTOR   2696961 . S2CID   164697551 . ^ BOOTH, H. J (1 February 2000). "REVIEWS" . The Review of English Studies . 51 (201): 158–159. doi : 10.1093/res/51.201.158 . ISSN   0034-6551 . ^ Thompson, Diane Oenning (March 2001). "Book Reviews : English Literature and

480-963: The Russian Aesthetic Renaissance. By Rachel Polonsky. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Pp. xii + 249. £45.00" . Journal of European Studies . 31 (121): 139–141. doi : 10.1177/004724410103112127 . ISSN   0047-2441 . S2CID   162724330 . Authority control databases [REDACTED] International ISNI VIAF FAST WorldCat National United States France BnF data Netherlands Latvia Poland Israel Belgium Other IdRef Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachel_Polonsky&oldid=1194583063 " Categories : Living people 20th-century British writers 21st-century British writers 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British women writers Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from April 2022 Articles with short description Short description

510-412: The University of Cambridge . Two subsequent presidents, Anne Lonsdale and Jennifer Barnes , have become pro-vice-chancellors of the University. Following a 2005 donation of £30 million by alumna Rosalind Edwards ( née  Smith ) and her husband Steve Edwards to secure its future, in early 2008 New Hall was renamed Murray Edwards College, honouring the first President, Dame Rosemary Murray , and

540-527: The artists approached agreed to give a piece of work. Donations have continued since, and the Art Collection now contains work by many famous women artists, including: 52°12′51″N 0°06′31″E  /  52.2142°N 0.1086°E  / 52.2142; 0.1086  ( Murray Edwards College ) S2CID (identifier) Semantic Scholar began as a database for the topics of computer science , geoscience , and neuroscience . In 2017,

570-422: The benefactors. There was some opposition to this as the new name incorporated a man's surname, despite the college being reserved for women students. Ros Edwards had attended the college in the 1980s and made a fortune with her partner when their software company Geneva Technology was sold to Convergys in 2001. Men-only Cambridge colleges were converted into mixed-sex colleges in the 1970s and 1980s. Since

600-409: The college and many are taught there by Murray Edwards' fellows. New Hall received its Royal Charter in 1972. The Arms of the college are emblazoned as follows: In plain English, this means: on a black background, place the following features in silver. Vertically in the centre, place a dolphin with head downwards to the left. On top, place three stars horizontally across. Bordering the arms, place

630-493: The college hosts an annual garden party that is popular with students from across the university. The garden party features a new theme each year and is well received by those in attendance. In Michaelmas (the Autumn/ Winter term), the college celebrates ' Apple Day ' in the gardens, a day of autumnal activities such as apple picking, cooking, crafting and bonfires. The students at Murray Edwards are encouraged to enjoy

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660-506: The college on Huntingdon Road were designed by the architects, Chamberlin, Powell and Bon , and are listed Grade II* (particularly important buildings of more than special interest). This includes: The college gardens have an informal style, initially planned and planted by the first president, Dame Rosemary Murray . The gardens include a greenhouse originally belonging to the estate of the Darwin family, where banana plants are grown during

690-414: The college's PhD students, Jocelyn Bell Burnell , a researcher in the university radio astronomy group , discovered the first four pulsars , leading to a Nobel Prize for her supervisor, and, ultimately, for Bell Burnell herself, a position as a research professor at the University of Oxford . In 1975, the college's President Rosemary Murray became the first woman to hold the post of vice-chancellor of

720-543: The first President and woman Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge , Rosemary Murray . New Hall was founded in 1954, housing sixteen students in Silver Street where Darwin College now stands. Cambridge then had the lowest proportion of women undergraduates of any university in the United Kingdom and only two other colleges ( Girton and Newnham ) admitted female students. In 1962, members of

750-610: The flowers and herbs already planted by the gardeners. The college maintains a fund for graduate research, including the Stephan Körner graduate studentship for studies in philosophy, classics or law. Murray Edwards is home to The Women's Art Collection (known until 2022 as the New Hall Art Collection), the largest collection of women's art in Europe, and the second largest in the world (the largest being

780-471: The gardens and walk on the lawns, meaning it is common to spot students sunbathing, studying, taking picnics or even relaxing on the small beach that is erected in the Summer. The gardens are maintained by professional staff, and recently also by fellows and students. Since 2012, gardening allotments have been provided for fellows, undergraduates and postgraduates for growing herbs and vegetables, in addition to

810-437: The potential to revolutionize scientific reading by making it more accessible and richly contextual. Semantic Reader provides in-line citation cards that allow users to see citations with TLDR (short for Too Long, Didn't Read) automatically generated short summaries as they read and skimming highlights that capture key points of a paper so users can digest faster. In contrast with Google Scholar and PubMed , Semantic Scholar

840-464: The system began including biomedical literature in its corpus. As of September 2022 , it includes over 200 million publications from all fields of science. Semantic Scholar provides a one-sentence summary of scientific literature . One of its aims was to address the challenge of reading numerous titles and lengthy abstracts on mobile devices. It also seeks to ensure that the three million scientific papers published yearly reach readers, since it

870-682: The winter months. In 2007, Murray Edwards College (then New Hall) became the first Cambridge College to participate in the RHS Chelsea Flower Show . The theme of the presented garden was the Transit of Venus , and was awarded a Bronze Flora medal in the Chic Garden Category. After the show, this garden was recreated in a slightly larger form beside the library. As part of the Cambridge tradition of May Week ,

900-499: Was based on the design of the interior of the dining hall (the "Dome") and was called the 'spark'. However, on consultation with its alumnae, the college decided to continue to use its arms in official materials. Like many of the other Cambridge colleges, Murray Edwards College was not built all at one time but expanded as the need arose, over several time periods. The college therefore has several accommodation blocks of differing styles. In order of construction: The first buildings of

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