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July 25, 2022
Categories: computational linguistics, computer science, language, open access, scholarly communication, writing
Some time around April 1994, I founded the Computation and Language E-Print Archive, the first preprint repository for a subfield of computer science. It was hosted on Paul Ginsparg’s arXiv platform, which at the time had been hosting only physics papers, built out from the original arXiv repository for high-energy...
October 16, 2012
Karen Spärck Jones, 1935-2007 In honor of Ada Lovelace Day 2012, I write about the only female winner of the Lovelace Medal awarded by the British Computer Society for "individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the understanding or advancement of Computing". Karen Spärck Jones was the 2007 winner of...
January 05, 2012
“...time to switch...” A very old light switch (2008) by RayBanBro66 via flickr. Used by permission (CC by-nc-nd) The journal Research in Learning Technology has switched its approach from closed to open access as of New Year's 2012. Congratulations to the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) and its Central Executive...
July 18, 2011
Grégoire Bouillier I used to use as my standard example of why translation is hard — and why fully automatic high-quality translation (FAHQT) is unlikely in our lifetimes however old we are — the translation of the first word of the first sentence of the first book of Proust's Remembrance...
