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 …
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 is 86 years old and has been suffering from …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
What a ride!! Let me tell you all about it!
No, it’s too much, lemme sum-up. (You knew I had to get one more Princess Bride reference in there)
Final Project
I had a lot of fun making this project. I still think the quality of work I produce …
I decided to do this a little differently than my classmates. I wanted a simple, easy-to-read, at-a-glance poster full of the main tips that I hadn’t seen in the advice videos I’d viewed coming in. So, I went to Google Images, and found a cool poster background, uploaded it into …
My theme for my final project was “literature comes to life.” I had high hopes and different visions of how I was going to do some assignments a couple of weeks ago. With that said, I really enjoyed my theme and I think I did some pretty good work this …
My goal for my Final Project was to create some media around Spongebob’s Best Day Ever and weave it together in a way that wouldn’t require much writing and explanation in this post. I want it to tell the story on its own. However, I will still narrate, just in …
What if Spongebob and Patrick could use Facebook? To document the Best Day Ever, I’m using the What They Might Have Done In Social Media Web Assignment.
I followed the instructions on the Fakebook page to build the foundations (name Spongebob’s page, fill out his profile, give him friends, etc). …
Best Work:
This radio show is probably the high point of the semester. We had a lot of fun making it and Kendall and Shawn did a great job editing it together.
I tried to pick one from each category of assignments. My gifs I am very …
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 never get through it. I really enjoyed myself and the …
Meet Judy Johnson:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsey_matthews/8271673760/
Here’s her autobiography, published with the help of her trusted aide, Kelsey Matthews.
Judy wanted to learn how to introduce herself to Rhode Island. She went on the radio in Providence.
The Rhode Islanders loved her! She was an instant hit. Next up on her agenda …
I can’t believe it’s all ending, I remember the first day of bootcamp and going through the assignments and wondering to myself, “How will I finish this course, I don’t have any idea how to do anything”. Now i’m sitting here doing the final write up for this …
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, cleaned up the long pauses and then exported the …
Here’s Judy’s autobiography:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsey_matthews/8271673760/in/photostream/
Yes, that is the real Aunt Judy with the teabag hat. I wanted to tie her to Sarah Palin, hence the ‘Maverick’ use. Also, I made myself co-author on there, since I am the one publicizing Judy’s story. I love that picture because it really embodies …
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 realized [LIGHTBULB], that Judy’s big mistake could be that her …
Living it up in modern day style, as part of my Final Project, Spongebob and Patrick will spend part of the Best Day Ever in a meme war. To do this, I’m using the Caption That assignment. To be perfectly honest, though, I felt the assignment was too easy …
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 Aunt Judy. I also misquote Washington and Lincoln, which I …
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 hard to find videos on. Then I downloaded them via …
Here is Judy’s four icon story. I’m using it to sum up her entire campaign run. I found the icons through a google search and put them together using Picasa. The order of the icons is simple. Judy is running for Congress as a Rhode Island Representative. She gives a …
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 …
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 in that order in …
This story was actually based on a true story. It meant a lot to me to actually finish this assignment. Isabella’s character was actually a family friend of mine who I used to live with. She’s exactly as described in the story, a fragile innocent girl who got …
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 …
