Bibliographic record
Abstract
The first stories published by Alice Munro (as Alice Laidlaw) appeared in Folio, the magazine of the University of Western Ontario, in 1950 and 1951. They are written from an omniscient narrative perspective and their subject matter is not entirely within the writer's experience.1 The story "At The Other Place," published in the Canadian Forum in September 1955, marks a significant change, for in it Munro draws upon her family's circumstances, employing the first-person narration that, according to Robert Thacker "became characteristic" of her fiction.2 Of the 15 stories in Munro's prize-winning collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, twelve are written from a first-person narrative perspective. Most of these are what the writer, in the often-cited interview with J. R. (Tim) Struthers, describes as her "real material" stories, for example, "Walker Brothers Cowboy," "Boys and Girls," and "The Peace of Utrecht."3KeywordsPerson NarratorYoung SisterNarrative PerspectivePiano PlayingNorth American LiteratureThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".