RSS

threedaymonk + linguistics   43

Ve - A linguistic framework you can use
Transliteration and part-of-speech tagging for Japanese and English (at present).
language  linguistics  japanese  english  ruby 
7 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Natural Language Processing
‘We are offering this course on Natural Language Processing free and online to students worldwide, January - March 2012, continuing Stanford's exciting forays into large scale online instruction.’
education  nlp  linguistics  compsci 
november 2011 by threedaymonk
Why Arabic is Terrific
‘This idea is so cool that you'd think it came from a constructed language, and yet Arabic has actual native speakers who live completely normal lives and will not try to talk to you about Runescape.’
linguistics  languages  arabic 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
NLTK Japanese Corpora – NLTKで使える日本語コーパス
Introduction to and explanations of how to use two freely available Japanese corpora for NLTK.
linguistics  japanese  nltk  corpus 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
A Way with Words, public radio's show about words and language and how we use them.
Might be interesting.
language  linguistics  radio  podcast 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
MIT Press Journals - Computational Linguistics
‘Starting with Volume 35, Issue 1, Computational Linguistics became an open access journal, freely available to all online readers.’
linguistics  nlp 
may 2011 by threedaymonk
The Stanford NLP (Natural Language Processing) Group
‘These are statistical NLP toolkits for various major computational linguistics problems. They can be incorporated into applications with human language technology needs.’
linguistics  nlp 
april 2011 by threedaymonk
natto - A Tasty Ruby Binding with MeCab
ruby  japanese  mecab  linguistics 
april 2011 by threedaymonk
Popular Linguistics
A linguistics magazine for the public.
language  linguistics  magazine 
january 2011 by threedaymonk
Chinese Etymology Home Page
Historical examples of Chinese characters: bronze & seal script etc. Strictly, it’s paleography rather than etymology.
paleography  chinese  hanzi  language  linguistics 
january 2011 by threedaymonk
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct
english  language  linguistics  grammar  prescriptivism  pedantry 
january 2011 by threedaymonk
Some highlights of Na’vi
The conlang created for Avatar.
linguistics  xenolinguistics  conlang  language  avatar  film 
december 2009 by threedaymonk
A Little Primer of Xinjiang Proper Nouns
How to pronounce Uyghur etc.
xinjiang  china  uyghur  linguistics  turkic 
august 2009 by threedaymonk
Lev Software's Animated alefbet Page
How to write regular and cursive Hebrew. Slightly clunky.
hebrew  writing  orthography  calligraphy  language  linguistics 
january 2009 by threedaymonk
Animated Arabic alphabet
How to write Arabic. Includes initial, medial, final and isolate forms.
arabic  writing  orthography  calligraphy  language  linguistics 
january 2009 by threedaymonk
Don’t Mind Your Language…
Wonderful post on language and pedantry by Stephen Fry.
language  english  linguistics 
november 2008 by threedaymonk
Missives on Outlander Japanese
japan  japanese  linguistics 
october 2008 by threedaymonk
Yoshikoder
‘[A] a cross-platform multilingual content analysis program.’
text  linguistics  analysis 
october 2008 by threedaymonk
The Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Anglo-Norman dictionary.
anglo-norman  linguistics  england  french  dictionary 
september 2008 by threedaymonk
Futurese (JBR Precoglang)
A fun look at how (American) English might sound a hundred or a thousand years from now.
linguistics  english 
august 2008 by threedaymonk
bradshaw of the future: less, fewer
Using ‘less’ with countable nouns: perfectly cromulent since at least the 9th century.
linguistics  english  language  grammar  prescriptivism 
july 2008 by threedaymonk
StupidFilter
'The solution we're creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English.'
stupid  humour  internet  linguistics  classification 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
libTextCat
Implementation of Cavner & Trenkle’s n-gram-based text categorisation algorithm. Very good at language guessing.
classification  algorithms  linguistics  library  open-source 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
Laryngeal theory
The e=mc² of historical linguistics.
linguistics  protoindoeuropean 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
What the F***?
Steven Pinker on the psycholinguistics of profanity.
profanity  linguistics  psychology 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
The vowel categories
Lexical sets for classifying pronunciation across English dialects.
english  linguistics  vowels  dialects 
september 2007 by threedaymonk
A bulletin from the Language Log Early Warning Center
Passive verbs are being denigrated again.
linguistics  writing 
august 2007 by threedaymonk
A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English
Singlish is one of my favourite dialects. This dictionary is comprehensive, scholarly, and full of profanities: what more could one ask for?
english  singlish  linguistics  dictionary  singapore 
may 2007 by threedaymonk
Ready to copy?
A good example of how interface vocabulary should speak to the user, not describe the technical details of a system.
linguistics  usability 
may 2007 by threedaymonk
Across cultures, English is the word
‘It is the common language in almost every endeavor, from science to air traffic control to the global jihad, where it is apparently the means of communication between speakers of Arabic and other languages.’
languages  english  linguistics 
april 2007 by threedaymonk
neologasm: Streisand Effect
Essential reading for Thai censors.
linguistics  censorship 
april 2007 by threedaymonk
Linguistic intervention in Iran
A linguistic analysis of what is probably clear to any native English speaker: that the British captives in Iran are having their statements written for them. Badly.
iran  uk  linguistics  news 
april 2007 by threedaymonk
More timewasting garbage, another copy-editing moron
A satisfying excoriation.
linguistics  grammar  english 
march 2007 by threedaymonk
The Language of Eve
Amusing article on linguistic ignorance and gullibility in the media.
linguistics  media 
march 2007 by threedaymonk
NAMCLO 2007
Sample problems for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.
linguistics 
february 2007 by threedaymonk
The English Open Word List
Intended for word games.
linguistics  english  wordlists 
january 2007 by threedaymonk
A list of English stop words
linguistics  english  stopwords 
january 2007 by threedaymonk
Het Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal op Internet
One of the world’s largest dictionaries goes online for free from 27th January.
nederlands  dictionary  linguistics 
january 2007 by threedaymonk
Only 20 words for a third of what they say: a replication
Turns the tables on journalistic pseudolinguistics in a very satisfying way.
linguistics  journalism 
december 2006 by threedaymonk
A E D
Arabic Etymological Dictionary
linguistics  arabic  semitic  dictionary 
november 2006 by threedaymonk
Online Etymology Dictionary
A wonderful, free compilation.
linguistics  etymology  english  reference 
july 2006 by threedaymonk
Afrikaans
Possibly the world's youngest language.
languages  linguistics  afrikaans 
june 2006 by threedaymonk
WordNet
A lexical database for the English language.
programming  dictionary  linguistics  database 
april 2006 by threedaymonk

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: