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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..
(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)
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’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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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..
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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..
(more)
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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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..
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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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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
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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