What computational linguists actually do all day during lockdown
For starters: how about if we fight to get the files open?
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What computational linguists actually do all day: The read-between-the-lines edition
Watch a movie like Arrival and you’ll get the impression that linguists spend their professional lives sitting around speculating about Sanskrit etymologies and the nature of the relationship between language and reality. I’m not saying that we never do such things, but, no: that’s not what we do with our typical workdays. I’m a computational … Continue reading “What computational linguists actually do all day: The read-between-the-lines edition”
What computational linguists actually do all day: The variable reuse edition
I know, I know–computational linguistics seems like the most glamorous job in the world, right?
What computational linguists actually do all day: The recursion edition
I know, I know: computational linguistics sounds like the world’s most glamorous profession, right?
What computational linguists actually do all day: the regression model edition
What computational linguists actually do all day: The lexical frequency version
In practice, we spend most of our time trying to figure out where we went wrong in writing some computer program or another.
What computational linguists actually do all day: The debugging edition
We already knew that the patient had the primary, secondary, and tertiary stages of syphilis.
What computational linguists actually do all day: the relative frequencies edition
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Computational linguistics and the covid-19 coronavirus
I know, I know–you think that computational linguists spend their time sitting around discussing morphological typology and its implications for the monogenetic versus polygenetic hypotheses of the origin of language. And we do–after work, over beers. For most of us, though, our professional life consists of trying to get computers to do things that involve … Continue reading “Computational linguistics and the covid-19 coronavirus”
Becoming a computational linguist without double-majoring in linguistics and computer science
You’re an undergraduate, and you want to become a computational linguist? Here’s how to do it.
