This is a question I’ve been dealing with ever since I went down this academic path, and one that I think I will continue to grapple with for a long time: what is the point of studying linguistics? Part of the reason I feel like I have to justify this is that my culture, reflected in my upbringing, favours “hard” sciences as noble fields—medicine, physics—or fields with obvious practical applications—software engineering, finance....
Cool Papers Notes Claire Cardie: Information Extraction Nov 16, 10:00 AM Claire Cardie delivered a really cool keynote on information extraction from a historical perspective. (Surprising and uncomfortable how much NLP research started out with U.S. military applications.) My notes here don't make sense, it's just for me to note down things to read since I didn't know information extraction was a thing! One thing to think about: Can we use information extraction techniques to build useful resources for low-resource languages?...
ACL 2020 was the most exciting event in my life so far as a proto-computational linguist. This was my first conference, and my first published research paper. I never thought I would be doing something like this when I started out with computer science (something that was fun and exciting), and when I started out with linguistics (something that became a hobby as I sought to improve my Hindi). I learned, I grew, all while meeting some fantastic people who gave me advice that I will pay heed to as I continue forward....
These are just some notes about Hindi SNACS that I wanted to be publicly available. I would use Google Docs, but they don't have good support for interlinear glosses. I would use Xposition, but I'm not really sure what the best place for it is there. Theme Optional को-marking Use Theme with appropriate construals as needed. The postposition को optionally marks a Theme only when there is some prototypical Agent involved in the action....