Sunday, November 10, 2013

Computational Linguistics: Too Computational for Linguistics?

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Even though I have recently moved on from the bed of nails that is the current job market to a cushy tenure track job, I still find myself r...
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Friday, November 8, 2013

Celebrity MOOCs

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Brad Larson sent me this  from Slate. It's site amusing actually. As we all know, teaching is part theater, so why not follow this to it...
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Monday, November 4, 2013

Help

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I know that there are many out there that know how Blogger works. So I ask for some help. I embedded a graph of a learning curve in the last...
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Learning is to cognition what phlogiston is to chemistry

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Last week John Trueswell gave a colloquium talk at UMD that I unfortunately could not attend. I was in Montreal at a workshop in honor of a...
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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Lifted from the comments on 'Mother knows best.'

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There has been an intense discussion of the APL paper in the comments to my very negative review of this paper ( here ). I would like to hig...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Some AI history

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This recent piece  (by James Somers) on Douglas Hofstadter (DH) has a brief review of AI from it's heady days (when the aim was to under...
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Had we known; Gerald would have been Chomsky's perfect foil

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It seems that Coco is not the only articulate ape. Bob Berwick sent me this film of Gerald. I wish he had been available back when Amy (Pen...
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