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2026

21 Aug: Food of the world: Three Sisters stew

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.. (more)

05 Aug: Food of the world: Uzbek Plov

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.. (more)

22 Jul: Food of the world: Chakalaka

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)

01 Jul: Food of the world: Koprová Omáčka

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.. (more)

15 Jun: Food of the world: Kaima Bona Gatoi

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.. (more)

26 May: Food of the world: Nasi Lemak

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.. (more)

12 May: Food of the world: South Indian Dal

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.. (more)

05 May: Data annotation for low-resource NLP

It’s that time of the semester where I’m in the throes of assessing student work for classes and trying to submit grades. One of my tasks has recently involved NLP projects related to the *taggedP.. (more)

29 Apr: Food of the world: Ainu soup

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.. (more)

15 Apr: Food of the world: Jollof Rice

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 .. (more)

30 Mar: Fieldwork and Food

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)

09 Feb: Use (AI) agents or get left behind? A response

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.. (more)

26 Jan: Low-resource language processing (lessons from HG2051)

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.. (more)

2023

08 Jun: Teaching ‘Language and the Computer’

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.. (more)

2017

23 Feb: 4 Practical Tips for Pursuing A PhD

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.. (more)