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2026

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)

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)

17 Mar: Controlling for Descent and Area in linguistic typology

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)

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)

16 Feb: A custom handler for faster-whisper on Huggingface

Recently we wanted to set up an audio transcription endpoint for our workflow with Bookscribe.ai. I’ve been using Huggingface in production for their accessible and low cost inference servers, but t.. (more)

2024

01 Feb: Some notes on LLMs in real-world contexts (Part 1)

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.. (more)

2017

18 Aug: Open Science, Data, and Linguistics

One of the concerns that has occupied my mind for that past few years is the question of data accessibility in the field of Linguistics. I am happy to announce that the data that underpins my grammati.. (more)

12 Apr: Grammatical Analysis: the Transcriber-Toolbox workflow

This is the fourth installment in a series of blog posts where I discuss some of the tools I use for linguistic analysis. In a previous post I described the tools I use for processing and converting v.. (more)

05 Mar: Linguistic Tools (Mac/PC)

When I started my PhD program in Linguistics (language documentation and description), I had some experience with linguistic analysis, but not to the degree that I had to learn in order to complete my.. (more)