Arabtex patch for the ACL and Computational Linguistics Stylesheets
I’ve recently been preparing two submissions to CL on Arabic. Not surprisingly, the CL stylesheet (clv2.cls) conflicted with Arabtex. The editors contacted Klaus Legally, who wrote a patch. Just place...
View ArticleDon’t Push pO2 During Deco
Dive Rite has just published an excellent article on O2 toxicity for CCR divers. Most of the article covers ground that is standard in CCR courses, except for this point: The biggest mistake many CCR...
View ArticleInstalling SRILM on Ubuntu 11.10
I’ve recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10, which I had avoided due to the Unity fiasco, among other reports of general “bugginess.” 10.04 worked really well for me for years. One of the first jobs was to...
View ArticleEntity Clustering Across Languages
I posted the final version of our NAACL 2012 paper on entity clustering across languages. The idea is to identify text mentions to entities in the world (e.g., people, places, and things) in multiple...
View ArticleNew Arabic Word Segmenter
We just released the Arabic word segmenter that was developed last summer at Google. The segmenter is written in Java and has no external dependencies (like the Standard Arabic Morphological Analyzer...
View ArticleNon-projectivity in English
Two phenomena that can cause non-projectivity in English: wh-movement and right extraposition.
View ArticleThe 2012 New York Marathon was a leadership failure
Dear NYRR: I want to add my voice to what must be a growing chorus against the leadership of both your organization and the mayor’s office. This was to be my second New York marathon, so I was well...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 Wifi timeout
Gosh, I’ve been battling this issue for over a year. After the machine resumes from suspend the wifi connection times out. I finally discovered that this is a DNS problem. This solution worked for me.
View Articleهل تريد أن تكنتك؟
This is an extraordinary linguistic feat in Arabic: verbalization of a proper noun. In English this is very easy. We can “fedex” packages, “xerox” pages, or “google” for a burrito recipe. But this is...
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