The development of the scholastic sentences collection can be attributed jointly to Anselm of Laon, Abelard, and Peter Lombard.
As is clear from the development of the sentences collection, summa, and commentary, there are significant changes over time in the ways in which authorities were used and cited (see the discussion of these individual forms above).
As with sentences collections, there are two aspects of the form to be considered: the overall organizing structure and the method of confronting individual problems or questions.
While sentence collections and disputed questions make very explicit the different sources and vocabularies that clash with each other and with that of the author of a question, meditation and soliloquy show no particular reliance on authoritative sources.
The Sentences, a collection of teachings of the Church Fathers and opinions of medieval masters arranged as a systematic treatise, marked the culmination of a long tradition of theological pedagogy, and until the 16th century it was the official textbook in the universities.
If, say, the truth value of the sentence 'A collection of 500 grains of sand is a heap' is 0.8 and the truth value of 'A collection of 499 grains of sand is a heap' is 0.7, then the truth value of the implication 'If a collection of 500 grains of sand is a heap, then a collection 499 grains of sand is a heap.' is 0.9.
It used to be nearly impossible for writers to cut out the dictionary middleman and go right to the source – dictionaries spent (and still spend) considerable time, effort and money assembling collections of example sentences (citation files) and collections of annotated and searchable texts (called corpora).
"When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style," William H. Gass writes in "Life Sentences," his new collection of essays, "it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope".
Multi-document summarization generates a compact summary by extracting the relevant sentences from a collection of documents on the basis of document topics.
I said to the governor, don't waste any money on investigations, just give me another life sentence for my collection.
The best blooms from this late flowering will appear next month in a new collection, Sentenced to Life, a title that shows James will never miss an opportunity to flash a bit of skirt.
