Abstract: I did some computer-y stuff to construct a personal Spanish text corpus and create a Spanish verb study guide specifically tailored to the linguistic variety of Spanish I intend to consume and produce. It worked fairly well. It also… Continue reading →
In my last post, I outlined the steps I took to programmatically mimic the wine reviews of a dilettante sommelier. In this post, I'll explain the steps I took to create the twitter bot @HorseWineReview which combines a random wine… Continue reading →
We’re very pleased to announce the release of qdap 1.3.1 This is the latest installment of the qdap package available at CRAN. Several important updates have occurred since the 1.1.0 release, most notable the addition of two vignettes and some … Continue reading →
To the untrained (like me), wine criticism may seem like an exercise in pretentiousness. It may seem like anybody following a set of basic rules and knowing the proper descriptors can feign sophistication (at least when it comes to wine).… Continue reading →
One of the things that I love about my field is the indiscriminate adoption of techniques from other fields. Statistics, computer science, neuroscience, and linguistics are most commonly drawn upon, but no field, no matter how seemingly irrelevant, is off limits. While working on and doing research for my pet project of making a robust »more
For a good overview of what OCR is, check out this overview I found myself cutting the spines off books, again. This time it was because I couldn’t find an e-book copy of ‘Animal Liberation’ anywhere on the net, and I’ve amassed quite a few physical copies--mostly from garage sales--that I could afford to experiment »more
Introduction This will serve as an introduction to natural language processing. I adapted it from slides for a recent talk at Boston Python. We will go from tokenization to feature extraction to creating a model using a machine learning algorithm. The goal is to provide a reasonable baseline on top of which more complex natural language processing can be done, and provide a good introduction to the material. The examples…
I’m very pleased to announce the release of qdap 0.2.2 This is the third installment of the qdap package available at CRAN. The qdap package automates many of the tasks associated with quantitative discourse analysis of transcripts containing discourse, including … Continue reading →
The Guardian recently discussed the "declining linguistic standards" in State of the Union addresses. I thought this was an interesting exercise, but something seemed wrong about the article, and it turns out this is one case where the data do no...
Introduction I recently posted about using the Wikileaks cable corpus to find word use patterns, both over time, and in secret cables vs unclassified cables. I received a lot of good suggestions for further topics to pursue with the corpus, Continue reading →
