Archive for September, 2007
07-09-30
Tags:Computing google Linguistics statistics Don’t quite know how this could be useful, but it’s a cool idea that makes a lot of sense. Official Google Research Blog: OpenHTMM Released
Statistical methods of text analysis have become increasingly sophisticated over the years. A good example is automated topic analysis using latent models, two variants of […]
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07-09-30
Tags:Education eye movement google Profiles psychology Teaching Watch List
Tried "eye movements" subject:"Reading, Psychology of" - Google Book Search today and I was impressed with what Google offers. They do not offer PDF downloads, but google’s fulltext search is better than Acrobat.
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07-09-27
Tags:Computing google
Google Gadgets: Gds File Revision History is a quite useful tool. Once installed, you can right click on selected file types and it will pop up a window showing you revisions.
Use the "Setting" on the window to add/delete file types you want to "track". It’s not easy to add extensions, though. […]
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07-09-27
Tags:copyright A number of sources have carried this story, 101 years ago. […]
TWAIN’S PLAN TO BEAT THE COPYRIGHT LAW; Will Run Autobiography in New Editions of His Old Works TO PUT PIRATES TO ROUT His Task as a Lobbyist Finished, So He Will Return to New York To-day.
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07-09-26
Tags:Chinese conference Linguistics psychology I will not be able to go to PEARL 2007 You are invited to attend the 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages (formerly under the name of International Conference on the Cognitive Processing of Chinese and Other East Asian Languages), which will […]
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07-09-26
Tags:Computing This has been out for sometime, but just got it to work. This site gives you step by step instruction of how to set up bi-directional sync between Thunderbird/Lightening and Google Calendar. bfish.xaedalus.net » Stay in Sync with GCal and Thunderbird.
The trick is the Thunderbird extension Provider:
Provider allows bidirectional syncing between the Lightning Calendaring Extension […]
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07-09-26
Tags:Linguistics punctuation
It’s official, at least in British English. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 6th Edition has removed over 16,000 hyphens from English words, and among them, the stick in ice-cream.
Kevin may not like it. He has data showing that, compared to Chinese speakers, American college students are very consistent when it comes to putting […]
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07-09-26
Tags:Linguistics Paperville
Cutting and Breaking is the special topic of Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 18, Iss. 2. Here’s part of the intro:
Applying statistical modeling to the descriptions of cutting and breaking events elicited from speakers of all the languages, we show that although there is crosslinguistic variation in the number of distinctions made and in the […]
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07-09-25
Tags:language evolution Linguistics Paperville psychology Teaching Commentary on a new paper on FoxP2. Echolocating bats fly in the crowded darkness and find food.
Babel’s Dawn: The Latest on the FoxP2 Gene
Surprising news from China finds extensive indications of evolution in the so-called language gene, FOXP2, among bats that use echolocation to find prey on […]
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(Teaching, Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics) | 0
07-09-25
Tags:Education Teaching The Nation’s Report Card - National Assessment of Educational Progress - NAEP NAEP provides a number of useful ways to view data on their newly designed web site. Washington DC was the dead last in 4th grade reading. But did you know that DC While student out performe the next best state […]
State performance:
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07-09-23
Tags:Computing Watch List
SENSEable city lab at MIT puts real time GPS, cell phone, and other data together to track the Notte Bianca event at Rome on Sept 8. The result can be seen here.
Its interface — the integration between 2D maps and the time dimension — typifies the by-now conventional view of […]
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(Computing, Odds'n'Ends, Watch List) | 1
07-09-21
Tags:Education NCLB Teaching Stacey Anderton, a teacher at Saegertown Junior-Senior High School, Meadville, PA, wrote in to protest an earlier article critisizing NCLB. Meadville Tribune - LOCAL COLUMN: Teachers, students demoralized? Local school says ‘No!’
As an award-winning teacher myself, I read with dismay Miller’s account of the teacher who wept because his ability […]
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(Teaching, Education) | 2
07-09-21
Tags:Education French Linguistics Paperville MoDyCo Villejuif - CNRS Jaffré, Jean-Pierre > version […]
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07-09-21
Tags:Education Linguistics Paperville psychology Teaching Is ‘Do Unto Others’ Written Into Our Genes? - New York Times In a series of recent articles and a book, “The Happiness Hypothesis,” Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist at the University of Virginia, has been constructing […]
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(Teaching, Paperville, Psychology, Education, Linguistics) | 0
07-09-20
Tags:evolution language Linguistics Profiles psychology symbol system Pinker’s Anti-Whorfian Hypothesis According to Booles, Pinker puts semantics before syntax. […]
Edmund Blair Booles posted a series of reviews of Steve Pinker’s new book on his blog site: Babel’s Dawn.
Pinker’s book came out on Sept 11th. Booles’ 4-part review includes:
Abstract/Concrete Divide
Concept or Attention?
Repressing the Obvious
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07-09-19
Tags:brain Chinese evolution Linguistics orthography Paperville Teaching
One of the sites I silently track, Developing Intelligence has a post on the Visual Word Form Area.
How is it possible that we have such seemingly "dedicated hardware" for visual word recognition if writing hasn’t been around long enough for this mechanism to […]
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07-09-19
Tags:Cantonese Chinese Linguistics orthography While linguists continue to debate on what to call the Chinese character writing system — logographic, logosyllabic, morphosyllabic … — the orthography itself has been adopted to write many languages. My latest delight is the Cantonese version of Wikipedia. Being a Mandarin-only Chinese speaker, I can understand about 70% […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
07-09-18
Tags:Education statistics Teaching Some interesting statistics. Nothing new, but still useful. How one interprets the data, though, is often up to the reporter. The original is (should be, not working as of now) at www.oecd.org/edu/eag2007 The annual Education at a Glance Report said that of all […]
FT.com / World - OECD criticises waste in education spending
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07-09-14
Tags:Chinese Linguistics OddsnEnds
Victor Mair has a post on Language Log about 方便 inspired by the following slogan above the urinals in all the men’s bathrooms at Capital Normal University in Beijing.
If you haven’t yet got the pun, you will after reading the post. I will not steal his thunder here.
But I […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 1
07-09-13
Tags:Linguistics I am working in That Coffee Place right now and a co-patron is apparently talking to a customer service person over a bad cellphone line. When "A as in Apple" failed, she had to come up with all kinds of creative "X as in Y"s. I think I heard "lemur" and "bunny" (or is it […]
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