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Edward Said: The Man, His Works, and His Cause

2011· article· en· W2597623857 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Khalil Barhoum

Bibliographic record

VenueArab world geographer · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeTerminologyPoliticsContext (archaeology)State (computer science)HistoryLiteratureSociologyAestheticsLawPolitical sciencePhilosophyArtLinguistics

Abstract

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To say that Edward Said occasioned a great number of Western scholars to view the Palestinian issue in a fairly measured fashion is to state the obvious indeed. Not only was Said a formidable intellectual force to be reckoned with, but he also succeeded in being a catalyst who helped move the cause along, becoming quite instrumental in shaping the Western debate over Palestine through the better part of the previous three decades. To some extent, almost single-handedly, he was able to affect the fairly entrenched terms of the debate, question and modify its prevailing terminology, and provide a more favourable context for the relevant discourse, one that acknowledged the yet unexplored Palestinian narrative as a legitimate complement—if not outright alternative—to the received wisdom of years past. With each new literary and political affirmation, his towering presence on the American literary and cultural scene grew larger and became more difficult to ignore. As with most intellectual giants, his commitm...

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.045

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.007
Scholarly communication0.0070.003
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.261
Teacher spread0.227 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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