Web site accompanying the book Not Exactly: in Praise of Vagueness, by Kees van Deemter, Oxford University Press, Jan 2010.


Not Exactly in the media


Reviews

Review in the Times Higher Education supplement, 4 Feb. 2010. (Book of the Week)

Review in the Sunday Times, 7 Feb. 2010.

Review in Nature, 11 Feb. 2010. (Title: The Virtue of Vagueness.)

Review in the Wall Street Journal, 3 March 2010. (Title: The Trouble with Precision.) A nice read, but let me clarify that my book does not contend that vagueness is always a good thing in politics (nor that ambiguity is always a bad thing).

Review in Computational Linguistics, March 2011.

Review in Minds and Machines, August 2011.


News reports and interviews

Press and Journal, 2 February 2010. (Title: Making vagueness into an exact science) Please note that our software does not "decipher the meaning" of vague phrases but merely tries to judiciously generate (i.e., produce) such phrases. Also, I doubt that one book will make that "political speeches containing words with no real meaning could soon be a thing of the past" ...

Interview live in Newstalk (mp3 format) with Sean Moncrieff, Irish radio channel Newstalk, 10 February 2010.

OUP Blog, 18 Feb. 2010.

Spoken interview in The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast of 8 March 2010. This interview is the last of three contributions, starting with an interview with Simon Singh on libel laws.

Interview in the New Scientist 10 March 2010. (Title: The importance of being vague.) The journal highlighted the book in this editorial.


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