Visualizing type-based word vectors
Eight years ago I wrote a post called Word embeddings: the (very) basics. It apparently struck a chord, because people still find it, still link to it, and occasionally still email me about it....
Eight years ago I wrote a post called Word embeddings: the (very) basics. It apparently struck a chord, because people still find it, still link to it, and occasionally still email me about it....
What happens when you ask fifteen Master’s students to annotate the pragmatic uses of a single adverb across eight thousand historical sentences, then train a neural network on their collective judgments? This post chronicles...
Each academic year, I lead my Master’s students in English linguistics on an intellectual journey that traces the evolution from traditional structuralist semantics to contemporary cognitive linguistics. A significant moment of this journey is...
As a follow-up to my previous post (POS-tagging in R with UDPipe), I explore the udpipe package further, focusing this time on dependency parsing. Dependency parsing is a process of analyzing the grammatical structure...
Every year in November, France eagerly awaits the Beaujolais Nouveau and the new edition of the reference dictionary of French: Le Robert. As New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov wrote: “Beaujolais is a far...
Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh (University of Queensland, Australia) invited me to to give a LADAL Opening Webinar Series 2021 talk. I felt quite honored to be part of a prestigious panel of fellow...
The 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG11) takes place from Wednesday 18 till Friday 20 August 2021. It covers a broad range of topics related to Construction Grammar approaches to language. My talk...
L’Ecole Doctorale 139 de l’Université Paris Nanterre organise un séminaire pluridisciplinaire thématique. Cette année (2020-2021), le thème imposé est “Preuves et présomptions”. Avec Sylvain Kahane, professeur en sciences du langage à l’Université Paris Nanterre,...
In 2017, I was appointed as Junior Research Fellow to the Institut Universitaire de France for five years (2017-2022). The goal of this post is two-fold. I am now halfway through my 5-year research project, and...
This post is a short introduction to plotting choropleth maps with Tableau, a commercial data visualization software. I show how to plot such maps using the BBC Voices dataset. Tableau software In a previous...
(updated Sept. 27th, 2019) This post provides an introduction to doing regional dialectology in the UK with R. More specifically, I focus on mapping lexical variables from the spoken component of the British National...
Last month, my paper “Can word vectors help corpus linguists?” was published in Studia Neophilologica. It is part of a special issue following a conference on corpus linguistics held at Avignon University on June...
In a previous post, I showcased the development of the split infinitive 1 I wanted to check whether the split infinitive had spiked after the airing of the original Star Trek series in the late...
I am a big fan of old corpora. Of course, I do also appreciate XXL corpora compiled semi-blindly from the Web. But, comparatively speaking, the older corpora have the kind of spick-and-span internal structure...