While watching the 2000 version of Henry James’ The Golden Bowl, I heard the once-common phrase “The deuce only knows…” I’m always looking for vintage profanity, and this appealed to me strongly. I’ve heard it hundreds or thousands of times before, of course, but here it was brought to the fore of my attention. After [...]
Archive for 16 February 2008
What the Deuce?
Posted: 16 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: books, deuce, etymology, family guy, folk etymology, german, henry james, information needs, linguistics, movies, openephyra, the golden bowl
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Who created OpenEphyra?
Posted: 16 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: cmu, computational linguistics, information retrieval, lti, natural language processing, open source, openephyra, qa, question answering, software
OpenEphyra is a question answering (QA) system developed here at the Language Technologies Institute by Nico Schlaefer. He began his work at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, but has since continued it at CMU and is currently a PhD student here. Since it is a home-grown language technologies package, I decided to check it [...]
NESCAI 2008
Posted: 16 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: artificial intelligence, call for papers, cfp, conferences, cornell, machine learning, nescai
This conference looks like it might be fun if you’re a student working on some area of AI/machine learning and going to a university in the Northeastern US. NESCAI is the North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence and will be held at Cornell May 2-4, 2008. The deadline for papers is March 7, 2008, [...]
