Archive for December, 2005
05-12-31
Tags: Questions on applying ICA to EEG Data A basic question in science is whether scientists should pay more attention to measuring or to observing. Quite often observing inspires modeling whose testing requires measuring! Each stage of this process has its own goals and challenges, and it own metric for success.
- Scott Makeig
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05-12-23
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William Burroughs, who once said that language is a virus from outer space, did some of the earliest psychological experiments with comprehension of inherently incoherent text. The subject, for the most part, was himself, and to some extent, his […]
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05-12-22
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Language Log: Spell simply and carry a big stick links to a recent cartoon about recent Dutch spelling reform.
Other spelling related topics include this one from 2004:
Update on the Germanspellingreformoppositionmovement
A little while ago, we had a flurry of posts on the German spelling reform (here, here, here, here), and Chris Waigl at serendipity […]
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05-12-22
Tags: Andrew Gelman reposted some interesting analogies that Yingnian Wu (UCLA) made between immigration and Monte Carlo methods. Interesting ideas, and I might use something like that next time when I had to explain these concepts.
What struck me the most is that this is a perfect example of how people, who have zero intuition about […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Statstics) | 0
05-12-21
Tags: Chris Correa also taught a course where student had to create a website for their final project. I say "also" because my pyc145 seminar this semester is designed around a home-grown wikipedia site. There are some shared goals, but reading Chris’ reflections reminded me of the differences between maintaining a personal website (or even […]
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(Teaching, Education) | 0
05-12-18
Tags: Preprints and Reprints from Gary King and colleagues: Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference by Daniel Ho, Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Elizabeth Stuart. (Version: 11/15/2005) Although political science articles rarely include causal estimates from more than a few model […]
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05-12-14
Tags: Lynn Nichols @ Berkeley Linguistics Lynn Nichols Assistant Professor
(Syntactic theory, semantics, Burmese, Southwestern Pueblo Languages, Korean)
Ph.D., Linguistics, Harvard University, 1998. Assistant Professor Harvard University, 1997-2002. Visiting Scholar Rutgers, 2000. She combines research in generative syntax and formal semantic theory with an interest in a wide variety of syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena. […]
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05-12-14
Tags: Mood and Modality: Papers included in the special Modality issue of the Journal of Semantics Editor’s Introduction: Mondality and Temporality Cleo Condoravdi, Stefan Kaufmann View paper
On the Lumping Semantics of […]
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(Paperville, Linguistics) | 0
05-12-11
Tags: George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because out thoughts are foolish, […]
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(Research, Teaching, Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 1
05-12-11
Tags: Foong Ha Yap pointed me to the following article, which mentioned in the pass some of the Whorfian ideas around the Chinese language. The Chinese Language: Myths and Facts
The last sentence of the following quote, marked in red, is interesting at several levels.
Article written by Timothy Light for the Asia Society’s Focus […]
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05-12-09
Tags: Click to search what Google knows about this story, originally from Seana Coulson’s website. Recently, I read about a North Carolina man who purchased a case of expensive rare cigars and insured them against fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile, and yet to make a single premium payment on the policy, the […]
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05-12-09
Tags: I am a little late the the game on things like cognitive blending and embodied cognition. But Since Foong Ha Yap recommended readings on Mental Space, I might as well start reading Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier.
Blending and Conceptual Integration
During the Upper Paleolithic, human beings developed an unprecedented ability to innovate. They acquired a […]
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05-12-09
Tags: terryjm@email.unc.edu Office: Dey 321, (919) 962-4996
While I am on aspects, I checked unc-ch linguistics faculty list:
J. Michael Terry
Ph.D. 2003, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Michael Terry’s principal area of interest is natural language semantics. His current research involves investigating the formal semantic properties of Tense and Aspect in […]
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05-12-09
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I just had a very stimulating conversation with Prof. YAP, Foong Ha at Chinese University of Hong Kong here at PCOEAL.
Professor YAP Foong Ha, Assistant Professor Personal Webpage Prof. Yap Foong Ha received her doctorate degree in Applied […]
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(Research, Linguistics) | 1
05-12-02
Tags: Mark Liberman gave a (more or less) personal history of Long Tail distributions in the context of statistics and internet retailing. Language Log: The long tail: in which Gauss is not mocked, but TWiTs (and dictionaries) are
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05-12-01
Tags: Phonics news from down under. The Australian: Reading strategy unsound, says academic [ 02dec05 ]
Lisa Macnamara
As the federal Education Minister prepares to release a national report into literacy next week, research from Melbourne University, and funded by the federal Government, suggests the document’s emphasis on phonics as a starting […]
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