Archive for June, 2004

04-06-23

Tags: Original URL: http://www.chriscorrea.com/archives/2004/abstraction
Original Title: chris correa: Abstraction
 
A wonderful idea… will try it with my RSS feeder… not sure whether it conforms to the APA copyright policy… depending on how it is implemented, I guess.

6/13/2004

abstraction

Abstraction

abstraction is in beta. Try it out and let me know if it could be useful. The tool allows you to grab […]

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04-06-22

Tags: Original URL:  http://www.wretch.twbbs.org/user/sydchen
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04-06-22

Tags: Original URL: http://www.apa.org/journals/amp/504ab.html#1
 
Read the paper edition today… everything made sense until they started to prescribe a cure by mixing these two traditions. I doubt that any mechanical “deployment” of two radically — yes, I believe realism and intrumentalism are inconciliable as philosophical stances — different approaches to science will succeed, in the sense that the […]

">Realism, Instrumentalism, and Scientific Symbiosis
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04-06-21

Tags: Original URL: http://ilk.uvt.nl/g2p-www-demo.html
Original Title: TreeTalk: Memory-Based Grapheme-Phoneme Conversion Demo 
 
A TreeTalk online demo. As mentioned above, this is an analogy-based model that is probably not suitable for a theoretical model of reading acquisition. While it is reasonable to assume that children keep track of words and their spelling forms, the assumption that phonemes are represented […]

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04-06-21

Tags: Original URL: http://ilk.uvt.nl/~antalb/
Original Title: Antal van den Bosch
Busser´s thesis took a straightforward machine-learning approach to English (and Dutch) GPC. The visulization is slick (although I am confused whose thesis it was — Busser or Bosch). But it seems like it´s an analogy-based system, and there are no explicit “rules” inducted.
Maybe with a memory-based approach […]

">GPC for English: machine learned
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04-06-21

Tags: Original URL: http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~cogcomp/
 
Some fairly dated demos from UIUC on name id and tracking.

Named Entity Recognition
Understanding text to the level that we can extract information from it in an intelligent way and answer questions with respect to it requires the ability to identify different types of entities and categories in text. E.g., this phrase represents a […]

">Name identification and tracking

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04-06-21

Tags: Original URL: http://www.las-inc.com/products/name_genderizer.shtml
Original Title: LAS NameGenderizer™ - Fast and Automatic Gender Identification
 
What´s the implication of the NameGenderizer on the YFLF discussion on “stereotype threat”?

LAS NameGenderizer™ - Fast and Automatic Gender Identification
LAS has accumulated nearly 1 BILLION names from around the globe. Your application can now automatically link a person to a probable gender via […]

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04-06-17

Tags: Original URL: http://www.samueljohnson.com/procrast.html
Original Title: Quotes on Procrastination

“The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest […]

">Samuel Johnson Quotes on Procrastination

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04-06-16

Tags: Original URL: http://www.0771.com.cn/joke/3503.htm
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04-06-16

Tags: Original URL: http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/termsofuse.html
Original Title:  using this site means you accept its terms
 
If HP can do it, I can, too.
 
At the bottom of each of HPs support page there is a link to the following disclaimer (excerpt). This copyright notice, however, is neither displayed at a significant place nor agreeded upon by users BEFORE they […]

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04-06-15

Tags: Original URL: http://processing.org/reference/compare/index.html
Processing seems to be a neat language to do visual simulations — e.g., of eye movements. Beats ActionScript because it´s (or will be) GPL.

Burning Liquid Sky by Mario Klingemann
Processing is a programming language and environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities. It was created to teach fundamentals of computer programming […]

">Processing: programming language for visualization

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04-06-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut/webtwo_features_irrationality.htm
Original Title: webtwo_features_irrationality
 
I might be overly critical. Or I am expecting too much from “science writing”. Either way the claim that the Greeks discovered mathematics (maybe orthography as well?) is just incredible.

…The stunning revelation for Greek philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, was that despite its chaotic appearance, the world was really […]

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04-06-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut/webtwo_features_irrationality.htm
Original Title: webtwo_features_irrationality
 
Dont you wish you were a “science writer” rather than an author of scientific articles? Being the former, you dont have to be responsible for what you say. Being the latter … as described on John “Neuronaut” McCrones website:
 

Early on, I decided to be a writer rather than a researcher because […]

">DIfferences between Science Writers and Scientists

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04-06-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut/webtwo_features_fire.htm
Original Title: webtwo_features_fire
 
The relation between fire and language was nevery answered in this article, but nonetheless it´s a facinating recount of the research on the origin of fires.

Within palaeoanthropological circles, there will be many fingers crossed hoping the latest findings just arent true. This is because hominid control of fire at 1.6 […]

">The discovery of fire

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04-06-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut/webtwo_features_deaf.htm
Original Title: webtwo_features_template_deaf
 
Continuing on deafness and inner speech, McCrone cites more recent research …

Dr Jim Kyle of Bristol University, who followed up Conrad´s work in the 1980s, says: “It´s a difficult question asking anybody how they think. Deaf people say things like they might visualise a shopping list or imagine finger-spelling the initial […]

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04-06-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut/webtwo_features_deaf.htm
Original Title: webtwo_features_template_deaf

The sign language used by the deaf originated in the late-1700s. A French priest, Charles de l´Epee, invented a system of signalling by gestures, fingerspelling and facial expressions. At the time, the deaf were seen as hopelessly retarded and hardly worth bothering with. They appeared trapped in a blank wilderness; not […]

">Deaf Reading problems

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04-06-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut, http://www.sci-con.org/ed_board.html

This site is the intellectual property of John McCrone, a science writer based in London, England. I specialise in the scientific understanding of consciousness and complexity. As well as my four books on the subject, I write regularly for the New Scientist, the Guardian, the Lancet Neurology (it´s Last Word column) and […]

">Who is John McCrone

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04-06-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut/webtwo_features_feral_kids.htm
Original Title: webtwo_features_feral_kids
 
The best evidence for grammar in Wild Children? Grammar in the sense of word combinations. But any sense whether the word order was influenced by Hindi spoken around her?

Singh made much of an incident when Kamala was given some dolls to play with and then a box to keep them […]

">Grammar in a Wolf Child

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04-06-13

Tags: Original URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut/webtwo_features_feral_kids.htm
Original Title: webtwo_features_feral_kids
 
It seems that wild children could never see the light of language. And yet, when they managed to learn to speak their first words, some Universal Constraints still were at work and the ordinary Optimality Theory predictions still stand. See below:

After three years, Kamala had mastered a small vocabulary of […]

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04-06-11

Tags: Original URL: http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/
Original Title: overLIB - Homepage

Some random thoughs about a browser-based UI for PaperScope.

Use Overlib; select, eg., the author name, and right-click (or some key combinations) to activate a popup menu, which lists all bibilographic fields, such as “Author”, “Title”, “Abstract”, etc. Clicking on one of them will add the info to the appropriate […]

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