Archive for January, 2006
06-01-31
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The way we write (my CiteULike link), published back in 2003, reports some odd statistical analyses of the English language in bio-medical publications. The work seems/appears (see the paper for a discussion on the difference between the 2) superficial, and potentially misleading. It’s a lot of (computer) hard work, but I can hardly see any […]
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06-01-28
Tags: This is an unfortunate event, but the title of the story paralles almost perfectly with (and arguably better than) the famous garden-path sentence example "The horse raced past the barn fell". Do garden-path sentences make better titles?
Google News - U.S.
Officer.comGuard Shot by Inmate During Escape DiesHouston Chronicle - 1 hour agoHAGERSTOWN, Md. - A […]
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06-01-26
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Patrick Bateson (sub_department of animal behaviour, U of Cambridge) is giving a talk, as I write, at Duke, titled "Taking the stink out of instinct."
Some of his recent publications:
261. 2005 Gluckman, P.D., Hanson, M.A., Spencer, H.G. & Bateson, P. Environmental influences during development and their later consequences for health and disease: implications for the […]
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06-01-25
Tags: Gary Ramseyer’s First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes
"When she told me I was average, she was just being mean".
or
"Old statisticians never die they just become nonsignificant."
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06-01-25
Tags: NOVA | scienceNOW | Past Stories by Date | PBS Profile: Erich JarvisThe work of neuroscientist Erich Jarvis demonstrates the power of open-mindedness in the lab. Mirror NeuronsA recently discovered system in the brain may help explain why we humans can get so worked up watching other people.
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06-01-25
Tags: W. Garrett Mitchener: I’m currently a post-doctoral research associate at Duke University in the math department. I just finished my PhD at Princeton University in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. I did […]
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06-01-20
Tags:annotation Computing handwriting Linguistics xml HP Labs India : Research : Pen-based Solutions and Handwriting Recognition
hwDataset: XML Representation for Annotation of Online Handwriting Data
hwDataset is an effort to create an XML representation for annotation […]
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06-01-20
Tags:annotation Computing handwriting Linguistics xml IAM Handwriting Database The IAM Handwriting Database contains forms of handwritten English text which can be used to train and test handwritten text recognizers and to perform writer identification and verification experiments.
The database contains forms of unconstrained handwritten text, which […]
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06-01-19
Tags:Linguistics morphology About PC-KIMMO: A Two-level Processor for Morphological Analysis
What is PC-KIMMO?
PC-KIMMO is a new implementation for microcomputers of a program dubbed KIMMO after its inventor Kimmo Koskenniemi (see Koskenniemi 1983). It is of interest to computational linguists, descriptive linguists, and those developing natural language processing systems. The program is designed to generate (produce) and/or […]
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06-01-17
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Paul Kay is not taking a nap. A recent publication by him led to a debate on LanguageLog site (here and here). The paper:
Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left. Aubrey L. Gilbert, Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard B. Ivry. Target colors of different lexical category […]
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06-01-16
Tags: Gulliver witnessed some of the most fascinating experimentations with language, which, obviously, looked backwards from how language and writing have evolved:
Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels - Part III: A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA- Chapter V
We next went to the School of Languages, where three Professors sate in Consultation upon improving that of their own […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
06-01-14
Tags: Firefox Central | Mozilla Corporation has the following introduction to Wikipedia, which, hopefully, is not to be taken literally.
Wikipedia - An incredible, free, online encyclopedia
According to Cambridge Dictionary Online:
incredible (DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE) Show phonetics adjective impossible, or very difficult, to believe:an incredible storyThe latest missiles can be fired with incredible accuracy.It seems incredible that […]
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(Computing, Odds'n'Ends) | 0
06-01-10
Tags: News - Vision Egg The Vision Egg is a high level interface between Python and OpenGL. In addition to methods for automatic generation of traditional visual stimuli such as sinusoidal gratings and random dot patterns, it has […]
VisonEgg 1.0 is finally released last week. See also: Pylink (by SR Research) - Eye tracking in Python (2004-02-25)
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06-01-04
Tags:CiteULike Computing firefox greasemonkey javascript Notes:
1. Z3988 string embedded in CiteULike contains all necessary biblio info, except that it has only the first authro. The string can be readily used in WorldLibrary and Duke SFX sites:
2. Sometimes CiteULike doesn’t have the ISSN for a journal (such as JEP:LMC), and as a result […]
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(Computing) | 0
06-01-04
Tags:Linguistics Abecedaria: To Point or Not to Point
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06-01-04
Tags: Everything drawn exactly to the request of Ethan (to the ability of this painter). By the standard of academic ethics, therefore, Ethan has undisputed right to this work.
This is also the first time I paint with Ink Art, part of the free Experience Pack for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005.
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06-01-04
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I was trying to draw Bert and Ernie the other day, and it was really difficult. I had pictures of them right next to me, but my drawings were just incredibly crude, more "linguistic" than "visual" in the sense that I was portraying key aspect of Bert and Ernie but in pictures that didn’t look […]
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