Archive for December, 2007
07-12-20
Tags:Computing Linguistics Three open source tools from LDC
One such tool is XTrans, a next generation transcription tool that is designed to support transcription tasks in multiple languages on multiple platforms. Its versatile and powerful waveform display/playback component can load multiple audio files of different file formats and sampling rates at the same time. The virtual […]
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07-12-17
Tags:Education Paperville reading Teaching Twilight of the Books: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
Twilight of the Books
What will life be like if people stop reading?
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07-12-15
Tags:Linguistics Research All about Oscar
Koreans began putting spaces between words in 1896. As in English, judgment varies on what constitutes a word rather than a phrase. Earlier, Koreans wrote syllables as distinct blocks but failed to separate words. That was the Chinese tradition, which is still alive in Japan, where the mixture of kanji […]
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07-12-15
Tags:Linguistics Research Korean Language - MSN Encarta
For centuries, Koreans combined the syllables into sentences without spaces to separate words, and they wrote sentences vertically, starting from the top right-hand corner of the page. Spaces between words began to appear in 1896. In the mid-20th century, Western-style writing in horizontal lines, starting from the top […]
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07-12-15
Tags:Computing Linguistics Where does this rule of thumb come from? Spaces between words
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Korea-related articles) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For Hangul, the basic rule of thumb is that there are spaces between words that are each 2 or more syllables in length, while there is no space between 2 one-character words or between a […]
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(Computing, Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
07-12-14
Tags:Computing exhibit mit Research statistics Watch List SIMILE | Timeplot Timeplot is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for plotting time series and overlay time-based events over them (with the same data formats that Timeline supports).
Well, too back I can’t show it here because it’s actually not […]
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07-12-14
Tags:Computing Research Watch List zotero Internet Archive to store researchers’ notes, "raw" data
Unless all contributors are careful about what they upload, this effort may produce a storehouse of bad ideas.
The idea, is to upload (scanned) raw materials to Internet Archive, which will then return OCR-ed version back to them.
According to […]
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07-12-12
Tags:psychology Research Teaching fMRI in the public eye Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005 February; 6(2): 159–164.
Nat Rev Neurosci. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2006 July 31.
Published in final edited form as:
doi: 10.1038/nrn1609.
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fMRI in the public eye
Eric Racine
The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, 701 Welch Road, Building A, Suite 1105, Palo […]
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07-12-10
Tags:Research Roaming around in the neighborhood, with rocks in hands, aiming at streetlamps or the kid who beat you yesterday. That was a partial description of my childhood, the more exciting part of it. Turns out there is a branch of science that studies it. ScienceDirect - Journal of Human Evolution : Age-related differences in the performance, […]
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07-12-10
Tags:Computing Research LibX browser extension for Duke Libraries
Add Duke Libraries to your Web Browser
LibX is a web browser extension (also known as a plug-in or add-on) that places a toolbar in your browser, visual "cues" in certain web pages that link to Duke Library resources related to the item you’re viewing, and new menu items […]
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07-12-08
Tags:Psy97 psychology Teaching Childhood Development Resources for Parents - Children’s Learning and Cognitive Development - HelloFelix.com
Dinosaurs, Turtles, and Overimitation
When do children have a harder time solving simple puzzles than chimps? In a research study that will be published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yale developmental psychologists Derek […]
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07-12-08
Tags:Chinese Linguistics If you can read this, you’re Number One! "You Are No. 1" Superstar Andy Lau, recently named China’s most desirable man by professor Jiang Jiehai, signed with East Asia Music yesterday in a deal rumored to be worth HK$200 million.
The photo at left is of Andy’s frequent co-star Sammi Cheng, also an East […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 1
07-12-04
Tags:Chinese English The Loom : Farewell, Seymour Benzer As the geneticist Guido Pontecorvo wrote in 1958, "The analogy of the genetic material with a written message is a useful commonplace. The important change is that we now think of the message as being in handwritten English rather than in Chinese." In Chinese, words are single […]
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