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2026

08 Nov: Data topology and statistical stability: pyTstability

The last month or so I have been burning the candle at both ends, investigating dataset properties and their relationship with how statistical models operate. It’s been rather fascinating to be able t.. (more)

05 May: Data annotation for low-resource NLP

It’s that time of the semester where I’m in the throes of assessing student work for classes and trying to submit grades. One of my tasks has recently involved NLP projects related to the *taggedP.. (more)

15 Apr: Food of the world: Jollof Rice

As I noted in a previous post, food is part and parcel of any fieldwork experience. My “Languages of the World” course at NTU Singapore gives an overview of world languages, highlighting theories .. (more)

2019

16 Sep: Computer-assisted syntactic reconstruction

Things have been quite busy over the last year or so, when I last posted. My wife and I moved to Zurich with our 4-month old, I helped organize a workshop on word order here at UZH, a proceedings volu.. (more)