Category: Teaching
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)
09 Feb: Use (AI) agents or get left behind? A response
A couple of weeks ago I read a post by Tim
Dettmers outlining how he has tried to use
AI to automate various tasks, with some
examples of successes and failures. While
his attempt to automate email w.. (more)
26 Jan: Low-resource language processing (lessons from HG2051)
Since 2023 I’ve been teaching a course on
natural language processing at NTU
Singapore. The goal is for students to learn
basic Python programming skills that allow
them to work with language data. T.. (more)
2023
08 Jun: Teaching ‘Language and the Computer’
Last semester I taught an introductory
Natural Language Processing (NLP) course at
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
I wrote a thread about it on Twitter (now X)
but here is a slightly exp.. (more)
2017
23 Feb: 4 Practical Tips for Pursuing A PhD
Recently I’ve been thinking about what I
wish I knew about PhD study before I began.
When you start out to do a PhD, there are
many things you have to learn that are not
necessarily directly relate.. (more)