Over on CrowdFlower’s blog, I’ve got two posts on artificial intelligence.
The major themes in recent press about artificial intelligence
Here’s my presentation to Stanford undergrads about corpus linguistics. You’ll find it full of examples and resources. And even some findings. http://www.stanford.edu/~tylers/notes/presentations/IntroductionToCorpusLinguistics.pptx
Went hunting around for some chat room corpora today–I though I’d find tons and tons but really just turned up one resource. But it’s a big one: over 30 billion words across 47,860 English language news groups from Oct 2005 to Jan 2011. Posts that are not in English are pulled out and the people […]
There are over two thousand African languages, spoken (in situ) by 15% of the world’s population. In density of linguistic diversity it is rivaled only by New Guinea (which probably exceeds it to be honest). And yet it is the Electronic Dark Continent. The LRE Map will give you 663 corpora/computational tools on English. But (almost) […]
Intro 425 million words from 1990-2011. I believe that one of the best resources out there for linguists (or anyone interested in language) is the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Mark Davies has put together a bunch of corpora and put together an easy-to-use interface so you can make sophisticated queries on vast amounts […]
Raymond Williams published a fascinating (and often-cited) book called Keywords (first in the 70s, then an update in the 80s). It’s full of really interesting stuff (my notes are here). But Williams’ words were just sort of the ones he saw flying around and took an interest in. This post gives you something a little more […]
Corpus linguistics
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