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2026
I recently attended the annual conference of the Society for
the Science of Motivation (SSM) in Barcelona. Joyce was
presenting a paper about our recent work automating
subcategory coding for implicit..
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At my son’s birthday party some weeks ago I was talking to a
few of the other parents while kids were playing, and, as it
does these days, the subject of AI came up. Of the two dads I
spoke to, both..
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When conducting comparative studies on linguistic features, we
are essentially observing patterns. In a previous post I
mentioned one problem we need to deal with, related to how we
represent the feat..
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When working with actual language data, one major concern is
how to represent that data. Many times as researchers the
things we want to compare are not equivalent, so we must use
the best approximati..
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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 wr..
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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. Ty..
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I recently read a post by Tim Dettmers on how he uses AI to
support his workflow. In case you don’t know of Tim, his work
on quantization has been foundational to how AI has developed
over the past fe..
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2023
As you might have observed, I recently updated my website.
Although it’s been on my mind for awhile, I finally got around
to it because I had a good template to follow and I’ve learned
enough about bu..
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2017
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 syst..
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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 grammati..
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This is my first update in a long while, as I notice that this
blog hasn’t been updated since 2015. I blame life and the ease
of posting short updates on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
Since my l..
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2014
In my last post I discussed the concept of deixis and
illustrated deictic demonstratives in Pnar. Pnar’s deictic
demonstrative system combines gender clitics with largely
distance-based deictic morp..
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For the past week or so I’ve been working on getting my corpus
of transcribed and translated texts into shape. The word
corpus is from the Latin word meaning “body”, and in
this case refers to a “bo..
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2013
This Lamp by Hiram Ring Sorry for the lack of posting recently
- I am on a short (two-month) trip to Australia, and will be
continuing to work on my thesis and music and such while I’m
here. I only ju..
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The new album ‘Home’ is almost here! I’m still working on the
artwork with my friend Janina, so it’s not completely done
yet, but for now you can pre-order the digital version on
Bandcamp: http://hira..
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