Category: Fieldwork
2026
21 Aug: Food of the world: Three Sisters stew
Recipe for “Languages of the
Americas” As part of the “Food of
the World” segment in my “Languages of the
World” course at NTU Singapore, I’ve been
cooking food from a region of the world th..
(more)
05 Aug: Food of the world: Uzbek Plov
Recipe for “Languages of Central
Asia” As part of the “Food of the
World” segment in my “Languages of the
World” course at NTU Singapore, I have been
cooking food from the part of the world ..
(more)
22 Jul: Food of the world: Chakalaka
Recipe for “Languages of
Africa” As part of the “Food of the
World” segment in my “Languages of the
World” course at NTU Singapore, I cook food
from a region of the world that we’re
discussi.. (more)
01 Jul: Food of the world: Koprová Omáčka
Recipe for “Languages of
Europe” This week’s post is a
recipe from Europe. As part of the “Food of
the World” segment in my “Languages of the
World” course at NTU Singapore, I cook food
from a l.. (more)
15 Jun: Food of the world: Kaima Bona Gatoi
I’ve been on holiday and so missed posting a
blog for last week, but this week I again
have a post about food. As part of the “Food
of the World” segment in my “Languages of
the World” course at .. (more)
26 May: Food of the world: Nasi Lemak
Recipe for “Austronesian
Languages” This week’s post is a
recipe from the insular south-east Asian
region of the world. As part of the “Food of
the World” segment in my “Languages of the
World.. (more)
12 May: Food of the world: South Indian Dal
Recipe for “Languages of South
Asia” As part of my series on “Food
of the World”, I’ve been writing up the
recipes for food I cook for my “Languages of
the World” course at NTU Singapore. It.. (more)
05 May: Data annotation for low-resource NLP
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 in.. (more)
29 Apr: Food of the world: Ainu soup
Recipe for “Languages of SE and E
Asia” As part of my series on “Food
of the World”, I’ve been writing up the
recipes for food I cook for my “Languages of
the World” course at NTU Singapore… (more)
15 Apr: Food of the world: Jollof Rice
Recipe for “Pidgins and Creoles”:
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.. (more)
30 Mar: Fieldwork and Food
Food in Languages of the
World The diversity of the world’s
languages is driven by a number of factors
that are still not well understood. However,
there is clearly some influence from
environ.. (more)
23 Feb: Austroasiatic linguistics YouTube channel
Most of my fieldwork research on minority
languages has been conducted within the
Austroasiatic (AA) family. This is a group
of languages spoken by diverse peoples
across South & Southeast Asia, and .. (more)
2018
24 Jul: Fieldwork in Myanmar
I just returned from fieldwork in Myanmar,
where we spent several days training staff
and students at two different universities
(Mandalay University and Yangon University
of Foreign Languages) in fie.. (more)
2017
03 Dec: Neural Networks: Some lessons from text classification
I have been quite lax with posting here
mainly because I have been working very hard
on a difficult problem. My current job
involves (among other things) trying to
automate a psychological coding s.. (more)
18 Aug: Open Science, Data, and Linguistics
One of the concerns that has occupied my
mind for that past few years is the question
of data accessibility in the field of
Linguistics. I am happy to announce that the
data that underpins my gramm.. (more)
12 Apr: Grammatical Analysis: the Transcriber-Toolbox workflow
This is the fourth installment in a series
of blog posts where I discuss some of the
tools I use for linguistic analysis. In a
previous post I described the tools I use
for processing and converting v.. (more)
13 Mar: Recording and Processing linguistic data
When you discuss doing language
documentation and description, one of the
first things to know is that you have to
collect language data. The primary source of
language data is people who speak the.. (more)
2015
20 Dec: Hanvon e920 Review: Part 1
The last year has been quite busy - I
completed my PhD, got hired on a 1-year
contract as a postdoctoral Research Fellow,
and have since returned to India and done
many other things. Needless to say, .. (more)
2013
31 May: Bangkok SEALS
I’ve been in Bangkok for the last few days,
attending the SouthEast Asian Linguistics
Society conference here at Chulalongkorn
University. The campus is in the center of
Bangkok and rather easy to get.. (more)