Posts Tagged ‘lists’

Computational Linguistics Blogs

Posted: 24 January 2009 in Uncategorized
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Since I started blogging almost a year and a half ago, I have been following many blogs. I managed to find some blogs dealing with computational linguistics and natural language processing, but they were few and far between. Since then, I’ve discovered quite a few NLP people that have entered the blagoblag. Here is a non-exhaustive list of the many that I follow.

Many of these bloggers post sporadically and even then only post about CL/NLP occasionally. I’ve tried to organize the list into those who post exclusively on CL/NLP (at least as far as I have followed them) and those who post sporadically on CL/NLP. I would fall into the latter, since I frequently blog about my dogs, regular computer science-y and programming stuff, and other rants. P.S. I group Information Retrieval in with CL/NLP here, but only the blogs I actually read. I’m sure there’s a bazillion I don’t.

If I’ve missed one+, please let me know. I’m always on the lookout. Ditto if you think I’ve miscategorized someone.  I’ve excluded a few that haven’t posted in a while.

Top 48 Sci-Fi Adaptations

Posted: 26 August 2008 in Uncategorized
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I just saw this meme on Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist and since he didn’t tag anyone, and I’ve never done this sort of thing before, I figured what the heck.  Just as he tagged no one, nor will I.  This is for my fleeting amusement and as an escape from the joys of moving.  The chain-letter-like aspect of “tagging” people is somewhat repulsive to me.

From Box Office Mojo’s list of Top 48 Sci-Fi Films Based on a Book (or Story) (1980- present). Some of the titles on this list look suspicious. (Was Cocoon really based on a piece of written fiction? There’s a difference between an adaptation and a novelization.)

Here are the rules.

- Copy the list below.
- Mark in bold the movie titles for which you read the book.
- Italicize the movie titles for which you started the book but didn’t finish it.
- Tag 5 people to perpetuate the meme. (You may of course play along anyway.)

And now, the list…

1. Jurassic Park
2. War of the Worlds
3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
4. I, Robot
5. Contact
6. Congo
7. Cocoon
8. The Stepford Wives
9. The Time Machine
10. Starship Troopers
11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
12. K-PAX
13. 2010
14. The Running Man
15. Sphere
16. The Mothman Prophecies
17. Dreamcatcher
18. Blade Runner(Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
19. Dune
20. The Island of Dr. Moreau
21. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
22. The Iron Giant(The Iron Man)
23. Battlefield Earth
24. The Incredible Shrinking Woman
25. Fire in the Sky
26. Altered States
27. Timeline
28. The Postman
29. Freejack(Immortality, Inc.)
30. Solaris
31. Memoirs of an Invisible Man
32. The Thing(Who Goes There?)
33. The Thirteenth Floor
34. Lifeforce(Space Vampires)
35. Deadly Friend
36. The Puppet Masters
37. 1984
38. A Scanner Darkly
39. Creator
40. Monkey Shines
41. Solo(Weapon)
42. The Handmaid’s Tale
43. Communion
44. Carnosaur
45. From Beyond
46. Nightflyers
47. Watchers
48. Body Snatchers

I’ve read most of the books on that list that I’d consider worth reading.  Any recommendations for the ones I haven’t?