Emma Stotz Ling 491 Zacharski Spring 2013   Exploring Gender through the Language of Twitter   Introduction With the age of communication upon us, there are a wide variety of forms of communication: text messaging, twitter, blogs, Facebook, reddit, YouTube, Skype, and the like.  Online social media sites allow for informal means of communication, which […]

Alzheimer’s disease is defined by the Alzheimer’s Foundation fo America (AFA) as “a progressive, degenerative disorder that attacks the brain’s nerve cells, or neurons, resulting in loss of memory, thinking and language skills, and behavioral changes.”(http://www.alzfdn.org/AboutAlzheimers/definition.html) My Grandmother has Alzheimer’s. She … Continue reading →

So, this is just me brainstorming, but I am pretty sure I have a solid idea for what I want to do for my final project: This semester, I am in a linguistics course (other than this one), Langauge and Gender, and this idea for research came from this class. I have been rather intrigued […]

Ch. 6 “Naive Bayes and Unstructured Text” This chapter in Zacharski’s “A Programmar’s Guide to Data Mining” deals with the classification of text into categories of positive or negative–does the person commenting like, or dislike the item they are commenting about? As native speakers of English, we can look at something and tell whether or […]

Classification (into Semantic Categories) Say we have a bunch of sequences of phrases and we want to put them into a different categories (i.e. dictionaries, artists, plants, etc), how could one go about doing this? One approach is to memorize common parts of the phrases (i.e. if the category is dictionaries, a common word might […]

Summary of Videos from Intro to AI (first half) There have been 2 main types of language models: 1. Probabilistic model: deals with the surface words, and sometimes letters  - (letter models are good when we are going to be dealing with sequences of unique words) actual data of what we see, rather than some underlying […]

Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books This particular article proved extremely interesting having taken a course in Lexicography, and it being extremely relevant to theoretical lexicography.  As the title of this article says, they discuss the analysis of a culture using data of the language from millions of digitized books.  First, utilizing […]

Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (Ch. 1) - Manning/Schutze Findings One of the big questions that Manning and Schutze pose in their first chapter is: ‘how do human’s use language?’  The answer to this question is not simple, and requires a deep, theoretical exploration of linguistics.  Linguists lay claim that all languages have an underlying structure […]

Here is the link to my Final Project: For my final project I tried to pick something that I knew would be fun for me to base a story around and would in essence let other get a glimpse into my world and something that I love. I choose to my project based off the […]

Yeah, I made a video. Of myself. Just talking and giving advice. I thought this was the best way to do it. I really hope it conveys how much fun this class is, even though sometimes I though I would … Continue reading →

Here’s how I have  Judy apologize to Rhode Island: The link to the assignment is here. I was struggling to think of something to do in two minutes, but I think I pulled it off. I recorded myself in Audacity, … Continue reading →

This is an assignment I made up myself! Woop! here’s Judy’s vlog. The idea behind it was to introduce Judy to the fine folks of Rhode Island. However, my dogs interrupted my recording. When I was editing it together, I … Continue reading →

Here’s where Judy was interviewed: I used the mulitpersonality assignment to have her interviewed. I am playing both characters, obviously. I just asked questions and then responded in Judy’s voice. Yes, the quote about Sarah Palin is from the actual … Continue reading →

Judy was feeling really bad after her flap of not really having a Rhode Island accent, as revealed in her vlog. Here’s what I made as her response. I went to youtube and typed in ‘presidential goofs’. That was NOT … Continue reading →

I’ve ranked my best work categories as followed ( 5 – 1) #5. GIF animation: I chose this as my best work because before this class, I didn’t have any idea what a GIF meant let alone create one. Thus for my first assignment, i’m proud I learned how to do one. #4 Technical Difficulties: […]

This is one of the creations for the final project! The sounds I used are: car starting, car door closing, high heel walking, audience murmuring, clearing throat, and applause. I got all of them off freesound.org. I edited them together … Continue reading →

PhotoFunia_Tutorial For this section, I chose to do tutorials for the assignments I’ve created. The first tutorial is a video, getting the through the software (website) PhotoFunia. I explain everything in the video below. Enjoy!     Y.O.L.O is the Motto! Creating this video was fun but very time consuming. If you were thinking about […]