Archive for March, 2008
08-03-31
Tags:Computing Watch List Just a reminder to myself: Need to upgrade to WordPress 2.5
March 29, 2008WordPress 2.5By Matt. Filed under Releases.WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, […]
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08-03-31
Tags:Education journalism psy145 reading Teaching Here again is a news story about reading that ends with an advertisement in disguise. Compare this scien-fo-mercial to the poli-fo-mercial. See for yourself how the same tactics were used.
Researcher believes early exposure to the written word can help toddlers read
A U.S. infant researcher says your baby or […]
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08-03-31
Tags:Linguistics paraorthography statistics Mark Liberman offers additional readings for a freshman who has a big ambition My lecture notes on morphology from Linguistics 001.
Language Log: Ask Language Log: Comparing the vocabularies of different languages
If you’re interested in taking this further, here are a few inadequate suggestions:
The Natural Language Toolkit, and the associated book. You might start with Chapter 3, Words.
My lecture […]
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08-03-30
Tags:Education psy145 Teaching
The new curriculum is passed today without the suggested reading list. Here are some of the books mentioned in the March 19 draft.
Star-Telegram.com: | 03/25/2008 | New curriculum plan for English includes suggested reading list Suggested readingHere are some of the books that the proposed curriculum says students should "consider" […]
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08-03-30
Tags:Linguistics psychology
Back in Sept 2007 Scientific American has an article on the potential evolution advantages of schizophrenia. The claim was that schizophrenia is a language disorder — hmm…
It’s No Delusion: Evolution May Favor Schizophrenia Genes: Scientific AmericanCo-author Crespi says that a number of theories have been floating around regarding the persistence of schizophrenia’s genetic […]
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08-03-26
Tags:Computing Research Watch List Wordpress
Time to try this: CommentPress
CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a […]
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08-03-24
Tags:Education eye movement Japanese Linguistics Research Nobuyuki and I are workign on a couple papers looking at word/phrase spaces in Japanese reading. Japanese typically do not put in spaces between words, although it’s standard practice before 2nd grade. How do they decide where to put in spaces in elementary texts?
nobuyuki’s research blog: […]
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08-03-24
Tags:evolution language Linguistics Paperville Research Babel’s Dawn is filing a number of interesing reports from the Evolang conference. No time to comment on all, but here’s a partial list. Babel’s Dawn: Words Are More Human than Syntax
Neanderthals Had Language
Recursion Can Be a "Side Effect"
"Words Are More Human than Syntax"
"Fossil Evidence of […]
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08-03-24
Tags:evolution language Linguistics Is being "symbol minded" (DeLoache, 2004) the same as having symbolic systems? I don’t see the connection from the following blog entry.
Babel’s Dawn: Neanderthals Had Language
Neanderthals had language comparable to that ofHomo sapiens, Bordeaux-based archaeologistFrancisco D’Errico told participants in the Evolang conference in Barcelona this morning (Saturday, March 15, 2008).
… D’Errico based his claim […]
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08-03-24
Tags:Education NCLB Teaching David Hoff of NCLB: Act II reported:
… Kati Haycock of the Education Trust is looking to create education’s version of the National Institutes of Health. "What passes for evidence [in education] is pathetic," she said. She’s also trying to find ways to get teachers the curricula and materials they say they need, citing […]
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08-03-24
Tags:Computing Watch List Vertov seems like an interesting tool:
Vertov is a project of the Concordia Digital History Lab, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal
Vertov is a free media annotating plugin for Zotero, an innovative, easy-to-use, and infinitely extendable research tool. Both are Firefox extensions. Vertov allows you to cut video and audio files into […]
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08-03-21
Tags:Computing eye tracking Research Following my last post on DLP, Kevin Miller suggested that 120Hz LCD panels may be the solution. Nobuyuki Jincho and his colleagues at RIKEN BSI tested LCD panels that claim to have 8ms response time. They used a photosensor hooked to a EEG machine, time synced with stimulus display that […]
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08-03-21
Tags:Bayesian book Profiles psychology reasoning statistics
New from BBS:
Below is a link to the forthcoming précis of a book accepted for Multiple Book Review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). Please note that it is the *BOOK*, not the precis, that is to be reviewed.
BOOK: Bayesian Rationality: […]
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08-03-20
Tags:camstudio Computing gawk Research Watch List I did a screencast for running GAWK — saved it as Flash SWF (sorry, lab members only). It reportedly crashes Firefox in the middle of playing. Here’s why:
By the way, CamStudio is now 2.5
A number of people have mentioned having trouble viewing SWF videos generated by CamStudio. […]
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08-03-20
Tags:Computing psychology Now that CRT monitors are fast going out of the market, it may be a good news for LCD lovers, but not for eye-tracking research. In order to do gaze-contingent display changes, we need monitors that can refresh at very high rates — mine is a ViewSonic PF790 CRT running at 120Hz. In […]
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08-03-14
Tags:Computing Linguistics The RASP System
System OverviewRASP is a domain-independent, robust parsing system for English. For ease of installation, the system is distributed in the form of binaries for 3 widespread unix architectures (Intel-32bit and -64bit/Linux, and Sparc/Solaris), with source code for most of the modules. It is free for research purposes.RASP was originally developed on […]
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08-03-14
Tags:Computing English Linguistics morphonology Tools for inflectional morphological analysis and generation, and for determining the orthography of the indefinite article are now available.
Morphological and Orthographic Tools for English
The tools are
morphaa fast and robust morphological analyser for English based on finite-state techniques that returns the lemma and inflection type of a word, given the […]
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08-03-13
Tags:Education psy145 reading Teaching At the end of the YouTube Reading story, the question was the Minnesota reading instruction competence assessment was. From the statute page:
4.14 Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 122A.18, is amended by adding a subdivision 4.15to read: […]
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08-03-13
Tags:Education journalism psy145 reading Teaching A classic example of PR around reading politics. Watch how the reporter baits with YouTube and switch to promote a piece of legislation.
Woodbury Bulletin | Mother uses YouTube to help convey literacy message
A Woodbury mother has turned to the website YouTube to spread the word about […]
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08-03-13
Tags:Education math Teaching Like the Reading Panel back in 2000, this Math panel report is likely to have significant impace on math education in the US. The goals, though, are moderate: Benchmarks in Math Education Fluency With Whole Numbers
1 By the end of Grade 3, students should be proficient with the addition and subtraction of whole […]
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