Shawn Medero » linguistics http://shawn.medero.net An Online Notebook Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:20:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Daily Brief, February 8th 2010, Afternoon Edition http://shawn.medero.net/2010/02/08/daily-brief-february-8th-2010-afternoon-edition/ http://shawn.medero.net/2010/02/08/daily-brief-february-8th-2010-afternoon-edition/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:18:27 +0000 Shawn Medero http://shawn.medero.net/?p=186
  • David Hyde presents the work of Anton Stankowski
  • Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s Chief Technology Officer, informs readers on Adobe Featured Blogs that “Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs.” The post doesn’t address Mozilla’s comments that Flash support had to be removed from Fennec because “The Adobe Flash plugin used on many sites degraded the performance of the browser to the point where it didn’t meet our standards.”
  • Journalists will be asked to pay CAD $260 for internet access at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games
  • The International Coffee Organization warns of a global coffee shortage as production will fail to meet demand by about 5 million bags
  • Viewing Flickr photos is now an option in Google Street View A search for the Space Needle in Seattle provides a demonstration. (Hat tip: Kellan Elliott-McCrea)
  • A man is held for trial in Florida but his native language is the Mayan tongue of Mam. The court system keeps given him Spanish interpreters though and no one is sure if the defendant understands a word. Interesting side-note: Checkout the expanded online coverage the St. Pete Times provides with their feature to hear the same word in Spanish and Mam
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  • Joanna Smith Rakoff describes her experience as an assistant at Harold Ober Associates, JD. Salinger’s publisher. Ultimately one of her roles ended up being a gatekeeper of Salinger’s personal life by replying to the many letters addressed to the author.
  • Opera 10.5 snapshot build 9240 re-adds support for the W3C Geolocation API, reenables Opera Unite and Spell checking, and (via site-patching) adds support for Google Wave.
  • The Guardian’s new Zeitgeist is a “what’s popular right now on our site” page presented visually as a heat-map. The Guardian blog has an entry up describing with the behind-the-scenes introduction.
  • William J. Rapaport, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Buffalo, provides a history of the sentence “Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.” This is the sort thing that trips up folks working on any sort of natural language processing disambiguation task.
  • Google Apps is phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 in 2010.
  • Finally, if you still haven’t made time for it, Obama’s appearance at a Republican Retreat in Baltimore is one of the more fascinating moments in U.S. Presidential history. This sort of “question time” between elected head of state and elected representatives is apparently quite common in other countries.
    • ]]>     http://shawn.medero.net/2010/02/06/daily-brief-february-6th-2010-weekend-edition/feed/ 0     Google Counts Considered Harmful http://shawn.medero.net/2005/11/20/googlecounts-considered-harmful/ http://shawn.medero.net/2005/11/20/googlecounts-considered-harmful/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:11:41 +0000 Shawn Medero http://shawn.medero.net/?p=37 Language Log has what can be considered the definitive look into whether or not Google query results counts are meaningless for social language research.

    Language Log has also posted several other entries on this topic worth reading:

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