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28 Jul: Determining language areas in linguistic typology

In a previous post I showed a simple way to control for language family and area with categorical variables in a linear mixed model using Python. In a more recent post I showed how we can plot languag.. (more)

20 Apr: Romanization of scripts and NLP resources

When I began developing the taggedPBC I needed to represent all of the roughly 2,000 languages in a similar way, in order to facilitate comparison. As noted in a previous post, while the majority of.. (more)

10 Mar: Comparative data and localization

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.. (more)

2015

25 Dec: Hanvon e920 Review: Part 3

This is the final installment of my review of the Hanvon e920 (PLUS) - you can read Part 1 (my reasoning behind purchasing it) HERE and Part 2 (how I got it and changed the language mode) HERE. In.. (more)

22 Dec: Hanvon e920 Review: Part 2

This is Part 2 of my review of the Hanvon e920 e-reader (mine is the PLUS version, which I think is the second generation), Part 1 of which is HERE. When we left off I was describing my reasoning for .. (more)

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)

2014

10 Dec: Hong Kong

Signs on a protest barrier. Protest at Central. Hong Kong street. After the Philippines I spent a couple of days in Singapore to relax, and the next stop was Hong Kong. My friend Matt and I had the of.. (more)

12 Aug: Silver Lake

I haven’t had much time for blogging recently, since it’s crunch time on my thesis. I was working even on the brief holiday (that’s ‘vacation’ for all you Americans) I took to the US for my brother’s .. (more)

26 Jun: World Cup Ghana!

So my team did not make it through to the next round. They played a good game against Portugal last night, but it just wasn’t good enough. Too much ball control, not enough finishing power. A ton of m.. (more)