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2026
As part of the “Food of the World” segment in my “Languages of
the World” course at NTU Singapore, I’ve been cooking food
from a region of the world that we discuss, so students get an
idea of pos..
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As part of the “Food of the World” segment in my “Languages of
the World” course at NTU Singapore, I have been cooking food
from the part of the world we’re discussing that week. The
goal is to gi..
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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..
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This week’s post is a recipe from Europe. As part of the “Food
of the World” segment in my “Languages of the World” course at
NTU Singapore, I cook food from a linguistic group represented
in that wee..
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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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I’ve been on holiday and so missed posting a blog for last
week, but this week I again have a post about food. As part of
the “Food of the World” segment in my “Languages of the World”
course at N..
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This week’s post is a recipe from the insular south-east Asian
region of the world. As part of the “Food of the World”
segment in my “Languages of the World” course at NTU
Singapore, I cook food f..
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As part of my series on “Food of the World”, I’ve been writing
up the recipes for food I cook for my “Languages of the World”
course at NTU Singapore. It’s a course that gives an overview
of world..
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As part of my series on “Food of the World”, I’ve been writing
up the recipes for food I cook for my “Languages of the World”
course at NTU Singapore. It’s a course that gives an overview
of world..
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As I noted in a previous post, food is part and parcel of any
fieldwork experience. My “Languages of the World” course at
NTU Singapore gives an overview of world languages,
highlighting theories ..
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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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2025
About a year ago I was looking for annotated texts to
investigate some questions I had about word order. My main
question was whether it was possible to extract word order
from corpora, but I realized..
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2024
Large language models (LLMs) seem to be all the rage these
days, with the release of ChatGPT last year sparking a lot of
conversation and interest. There have been quite a few efforts
aimed at getting..
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2023
Last semester I taught an introductory Natural Language
Processing (NLP) course at Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore. I wrote a thread about it on Twitter (now X) but
here is a slightly expa..
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2017
In a previous post I discussed some of the benefits I
discovered in using LaTeX with LyX as a front-end. Another
extremely useful tool to learn how to use is a Bibliography
manager. If you are like I..
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When you discuss doing language documentation and description,
one of the first things to know is that you have to collect
language data. The primary source of language data is people
who speak the la..
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Recently I’ve been thinking about what I wish I knew about PhD
study before I began. When you start out to do a PhD, there
are many things you have to learn that are not necessarily
directly related t..
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2015
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, ..
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2014
I mentioned that Dr. Anvita Abbi gave a great talk at the
Himalayan Languages Symposium on her work on Great Andaman in
the Indian Ocean. Here’s a map just to show you where that is.
credit: [B..
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2013
I first met Yolanda and her sister Sophia in Quarryville, PA,
at the Coffee Bean, a small coffee shop in the town, back in
2006 when I was starting to play shows in the Lancaster area.
I got to know t..
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