Joshua on Jun 7th, 2008Now That’s Good Advice!
Admittedly not from a linguistic source, but cool nonetheless:
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Now if only we could get Sociolinguists in the habit of repeating that to themselves with their morning coffee every day…
Joshua on Jun 3rd, 2008What’s an Optimal Dictionary?
Mark Changizi is something of a sensation after his recent SciAm appearances, so I picked up one of his papers - the one about economical hierarchy organization in dictionaries.
This is a really interesting bit of work - one of those “why didn’t anyone consider this before?” kinds of things. Of course, people have thought [...]
Joshua on May 26th, 2008Language Module
Greetings. My name is Joshua Herring, and I’m a PhD student in Computational Linguistics at Indiana University. Not that you’d know it by the blog I’ve been keeping for the past two years. That thing is mostly about politics - which was really, honestly, was never the intention, but there you have [...]