Archive for September, 2003

03-09-17

Tags: NBR Research
In the first instance reading normally relies on intricate sensory processes involving the eyes, the complexity of which is not always appreciated and so we have prepared three animations to illustrate this:
[gaze 6.4Mb] In the first sequence, the red dot represents the gaze of an adult male reader as it moves over the […]

">Some animations from NBR
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03-09-17

Tags: NBR Publications Neural Basis for Reading
Cornelissen, PL, Tarkiainen, A, Salmelin, R (2003) Cortical effects of shifting letter position in letter strings of varying length. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(5), 731-746. [PDF]
Helenius P, Tarkiainen A, Cornelissen P, Hansen PC & Salmelin R. (1999). Dissociation of Normal Feature Analysis and Deficient Processing of Letter-Strings in Dyslexic Adults […]

">Oxford group “Neural Basis for Reading” Publications
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03-09-17

Tags: Friedmann (2002) - Letter Position Dyslexia
Friedmann presented 2 clinical cases where the patients specifically confused medial letter positions, “board” with “broad”. There is a discussion on theories of letter position encoding.

">Friedmann (2002) - Letter Position Dyslexia
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03-09-17

Tags: Jun forwarded me this message today. It is amuzing by itself, but when you consider this, it suddenly becomes a serious research topic.
From: someone@somewhere.comDate: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:12:36 -0400Subject: [chengdu_7] Thought this was pretty cool
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the […]

">Cambridge University:: Letter order effect
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03-09-16

Tags: Torch3: The Dream Comes True
What’s Torch3 ?
It’s a machine-learning library, written in simple C++ and distributed now under a BSD license.Torch is currently developed at IDIAP, in Switzerland mountains.
Features

A lot of things in gradient machines, that is, machines which could be learned with a gradient descent. This includes multi-layered perceptrons, radial basis functions, mixtures […]

">What’s Torch3

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03-09-16

Tags: When editing in Entry_Edit, the text will stop when there is a single quotation mark. Need to encode texts.

">MT WYSIWYG editor:: bug report
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03-09-16

Tags: Any2DjVu Server

The DjVu Any2DjVu Server is offered by DjVu Zone as a public service. It provides users with a simple online means of creating documents in DjVu format. The Any2DjVu Server is probably the easiest way to convert your files to DjVu format. You can use the server, for instance, to create DjVu versions […]

">Any2DjVu Server

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03-09-16

Tags: http://yann.lecun.com/

I am a professor of Computer Science with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
My main research interests are Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Digital Libraries. I am also interested in Data Compression, Autonomous Robotics, the Physics of Computation, and all the applications of machine learning (Speech and Handwriting Recognition, Data Mining, […]

">Yann LeCun:: pronounced “Yawnn Le Kahn”

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03-09-16

Tags: Fun Stuff

Steep Learning Curves and other erroneous metaphores
Interesting peculiarities of American English never cease to amuse non-native speakers like me. Many languages are full of idiotic idioms, but I find two idioms widely used in Corporate America particularly amusing because they reveal major misconceptions about simple mathematical concepts.
Have you ever wondered where the expression […]

">Yann LeCun:: Steep Learning Curves and other erroneous metaphores

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03-09-16

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Lush: A Programming Language for Research

Tired of Matlab? Lush is an easy-to-learn, open-source object-oriented programming language designed for researchers, experimenters, and engineers working in large-scale numerical and graphic applications.
Lush combines three languages in one: a very simple to use, loosely-typed interpreted language, a strongly-typed compiled language with the same syntax, and the C language, which […]

">Lush: a MatLab alternative?

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03-09-16

Tags: Bib2Web Server

The Bib2Web Server allows scientists, students, or anyone else to easily and automatically produce Web sites or CD-ROMs from a set of documents in PostScript, PDF, TIFF, or DjVu. The resulting collection provides all the documents in PS and DjVu, as well as a full-text search capability. Something that looks like this.
The process […]

">Bib2Web:: Gotta try this!!!

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03-09-16

Tags: DjVuLibre: Open Source DjVu library and viewer
 DjVu is a web-centric format and software platform for distributing documents and images. DjVu can advantageously replace PDF, PS, TIFF, JPEG, and GIF for distributing scanned documents, digital documents, or high-resolution pictures. DjVu content downloads faster, displays and renders faster, looks nicer on a screen, and consume less […]

">A real DjVu
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03-09-16

Tags: dotProject.net
Problem — On my desktop server, the MySQL.Exe won’t run. It generates an error message and quits. So I can’t install.
Create a new user called {dotproject}. Grant access to user {dotproject} on the {dotproject} database. Make sure to record the dotproject user’s password, {yourpassword}.Customise the variables in the file includes/config.php to match your db_name, db_user, […]

">MySQL.exe fault — can’t install dotproject
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03-09-16

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">Small Form Factor Pentium 4 PC Roundup - March 2003
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03-09-15

Tags: Contents of Volumes 20:1-29:2
Volume 26:1/2 (Spring/Fall 1996)Studies in Chinese Linguistics(Edited by Chin-Chuan Cheng, Jerome L. Packard, & James H. Yoon)

Foreword
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Marjorie K. M. Chan: Gender-marked speech in Cantonese: The case of sentence-final particles je and jek.
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Miao-Hsia Chang: The grammaticalization of beh in Taiwanese Hokkian
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Si-Qing Chen: The automatic identification and recovery of Chinese […]

">Bob Good’s 1996 paper on Studies in Chinese Linguistics

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03-09-15

Tags: http://slate.lang.uiuc.edu/old-files/graduates.html
Robert Good Department: LinguisticsDissertation: Strategies in the Writing of Chinese Characters by Intemediate and Advanced Students of Chinese as a Foreign Language Director: Jerome Packard Degree awarded: 10/15/98
SLATE Robert Good

Name:
Robert Good

Department:
Linguistics

Thesis director:
Howard Maclay

Thesis topic:
Not listed

Degree awarded :
Fall 1998

">Robert Good

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03-09-15

Tags: SIL Language Software 1.0
SIL Language Software 1.0

SIL Language Software 1.0 collects together in one set of CD-ROMs the current versions of SILs computer programs and reference resources developed for use by language and culture learners and field researchers. The suite includes new versions of LinguaLinks Library, LinguaLinks Workshops, and Speech Tools, with significant […]

">SIL Language Software 1.0 =$74

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03-09-15

Tags: LinguaLinks Library Contents: Local literacies: Theory and practice
Local literacies: Theory and practice
Glenys Waters. 1998.
While many books have been written about basic literacy, few offer detailed information on how to plan and carry out a community literacy project. Fewer still give guidance in tackling the additional barriers of language, culture, and logistics in developing countries […]

">Local literacies: Theory and practice
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03-09-15

Tags: Linguist List - Book Information 

Title:
Dutch Orthography

Written By:
Anneke Nunn

Series Title:
LOT International Series 6

Description:

This study offers a detailed and systematic account of Dutch orthography and its relation to the linguistic system. It reveals aspects of the spelling system that were ignored or left implicit until now, and integrates them […]

">Dutch Orthography

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03-09-15

Tags: UM SOE: In Memorial to Paul Pintrich
Paul R. Pintrich
Nov. 4, 1953July 12, 2003
Paul Pintrich died on Saturday, July 12, 2003 of a massive stroke. Paul was dearly loved and respected by all his friends and colleagues within the School and the University. His untimely passing represents an enormous loss for us all. Our thoughts […]

">In Memorial to Paul Pintrich
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