language

Jussi Karlgren intervjuad i Computer Sweden: Han hittar ordens hemligheter

"Gavagais teknik söker igenom bloggosfären och samlar in åsikter. Vad tycker folk om Juholt och Reinfeldt? Vad vet en dator om opinionsbildning? Allt bygger på en doktorsavhandling och en slumpande databas....

4th ESAIR Workshop

4th Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotation in Information Retrieval, Friday October 28, 2011

The 4th ESAIR workshop will run on October 28, 2011 in Glasgow in conjunction with the 20th CIKM conference....

Book: "This sentence is false" -- more about language paradoxes than you want to hear

Paradoxes tickle the mind. A statement or story seems superficially OK, but the conclusions or implications contradict what one regards as intuitively true....

Attityd i text

Detta projekt avser studera attitudinella uttryck i mänskliga språk, specifikt skriven text. Attitudinella uttryck är uttryck som "Jag gillar varm korv" eller "Bertram har en utmärkt...

Dispense with complexity analysis


Complexity analysis of human language is uninteresting for many reasons, among them 1) the assumption of infinite sentence length, and 2) the assumption of a finite lexicon.
 
Actually this is true for many cases where complexity analysis is performed. Worst-case analyses aren't usually what best describes a problem space.