Archive for May, 2007
07-05-31
Tags:Computing Research Watch List
Citation Style Language is what Zotera uses.
CSL is based on a notion of citation class, around which all validation is structured. If one […]
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07-05-31
Tags:Computing Watch List zotero Zotero has released these two critical extensions.
Integration with Microsoft Word and other word processors
Integration with WordPress and other blogging software
What I am waiting for is a google doc plugin
[Update June 1: Added CoinS to this blog. Now you can grab post info to Zotero. But […]
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07-05-31
Tags:language Paperville Research symbol symbol system vygotsky Vygotsky: Thinking and speaking: Written, Inner and Oral Speech The development of writing does not repeat the developmental history of speaking. Written speech is a separate linguistic function, differing from oral speech in both structure and mode of functioning. Even its minimal development requires […]
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07-05-31
Tags:language Paperville psychology Research symbol symbol system Perhaps the […]
I revisited Premack’s 2004 Science piece on human uniqueness ("Is language the key to human intelligence?" 16 Jan., p. 318) and particularly his response to a question about humans having 6 symbol systems (Language and Systems of Symbols). A number of interesting points:
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07-05-31
Tags:Research symbol symbol system Chris Chatham, a graduate student at Boulder and a leading neuroscience blogger on ScienceBlogs.com, has a couple of recent posts about symbol uses (The Blessing and Curse of Analytic Depth in Understanding Symbol Use, Neural Substrates of Symbol Use).
He offers the following in the first post:
Conclusions
The cognitive neuroscience […]
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07-05-31
Tags:Computing google Watch List
Google Gears makes sense on paper, but I need to see how well it actually works with non-static pages. This is exactly the idea I toyed around a little about a year ago. I think I emailed google to request an offline feature for gmail, by which I meant an […]
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07-05-30
Tags: On my home computer we use Micro$oft Word as the email editor. Today I was emailing my daughtor’s swimming coach about an upcoming meet, where Jessie will swim 50 breast stroke, when Word underscored the word "breast" and suggested
50 breasts
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07-05-29
Tags:Computing google Watch List
Google Experimental Search shows results in timeline and map views. It’s done by automatically extracting dates and addresses (zip code?) and is limited to the top n results.
Interesting, but not useful unless it incorporates some way to improve the organization of information, e.g., by user input.
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07-05-25
Tags: No, no. I wasn’t shopping for a coffin. And even if I was, it would have been too late - it’s past 12pm EST. "You can’t die just yet. Hang in there until tomorrow."
I confess that I am a Costco memeber. I don’t go as often as my other family members do but […]
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07-05-24
Tags:paraorthography punctuation Here’s the openning of a recent poem by Paul Violi, in Benjamin Zimmer’s entry today on LanguageLog:
Appeal to the Grammarians by Paul Violi
We, the naturally hopeful, Need a simple sign For the myriad ways we’re capsized. We who love precise language Need a finer way to convey Disappointment and perplexity. For speechlessness […]
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07-05-22
Tags:English Linguistics Ok, nothing is more basic than the word "basic", right?
But why can’t you say "basic-er?"
The rule I learned from my highschool English class — mind you, that was 20 years ago in China — was that 1-syllable adjectives must take "-er", and 2-syllable adj. can take either "-er" or "more X"; anything […]
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07-05-21
Tags: Duke’s library chose Connotea, not citeulike. Library Hacks » Connotea, an Online Research Tool
Since most users’ libraries of resources are public (though you can choose to make a private library), you can search for tags of interest to you among resources found by other users—fellow Duke students, Duke librarians who are putting useful resources into […]
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07-05-18
Tags:Linguistics Kevin and I had a running joke about the Chinese color name 青 for … well, probably a decade by now. And now he got some new insight from Su-Ling Yeh, who I also met a few years back in Taiwan. Things might be clearer to him, but not for me.
So I guess qing […]
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07-05-17
Tags:Computing statistics Tanya and I are writing a paper where we will report some Rasch analyses. It’s no where near the sophistication the field of psychometrics has gone nowadays. What we wish to show is that the data stochastically fits a Guttman scale, i.e., items fall on an underlying difficulty scale, where one has to […]
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07-05-17
Tags:eye movement modeling Paperville Research Schall’s work, which RHS Carpenter cited as neurological evidence for the LATER model, is very striking. Some of his papers are on my to-read list, which is piling up really fast. Jeffrey D. Schall, Ph.D
Neural Control of Voluntary Movement Initiation
D.P. Hanes and […]
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07-05-17
Tags:Computing eye movement modeling reading statistics
MIX used to be a commercial program back in the DOS age, but now Peter Macdonald has made it available free as part of R package, called mixdist. It’s not available at R’s CRAN site, but you can download here.
A big advantage is that it […]
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07-05-17
Tags:Computing eye movement modeling reading Research statistics Roger HS Carpenter, whom I read with great respect, recently published a paper with Scott McDonald, where they applied his LATER model (Linear Approach to Threshold with Ergodic Rate) of saccade response time (fixation duration) to reading (see also Mike […]
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07-05-17
Tags:eye movement modeling statistics I’ve proposed a mixture of log-normal model of reading fixation duration. The estimation of parameteras are based on the EM algorithm. But there may be a way to approximate mixtures of lognormals as another lognormal. Log-normal distribution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Let
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07-05-17
Tags:eye movement Research statistics George McConkie et al. (1988) concluded that in reading English the landing position distribution — where the eye fixate within a word — is effectively a truncated Gaussian (Normal) distribution. It’s truncated because, presumably, some fixations were meant to be on the word but were landed on adjacent words by […]
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07-05-14
Tags:CiteULike Research
LibraryThing on Second Life. Two completely different birds I was after oddly met a couple of months ago.
LibraryThing is a social network site for bookworms. It claims to become the 2nd largest library by Summer, with over 13 million books "held" by their members. Many nice features, particularly for social networking. […]
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