The last month or so I have been burning the candle at both ends, investigating dataset properties and their relationship with how statistical models operate. It’s been rather fascinating to be able t.. (more)

“Βut still beyond this, immediately under the north, at a certain point, where the exterior sea terminates, lies a city called Τhina, not on the coast, but inland, from which both the raw material.. (more)

25 years ago, on September 11, 2001, a lot of people lost their lives to a war they didn’t know existed, attacked by individuals with an ideology that made them willing to die to destroy what they s.. (more)

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 discussing in that week, so that students can g.. (more)

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 environment and other kinds of context. When.. (more)

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.. (more)

I just returned from fieldwork in Myanmar, where we spent several days training staff and students at two different universities (Mandalay University and Yangon University of Foreign Languages) in fie.. (more)