Computational Linguistics? Are you kidding me?
I’ve took a class called “LING 472 Introduction to Computational Linguistics” at UW once, so when my friend sent me this… I had to steal it from http://xkcd.com/ and host it here. Thanks 3ric.
The University of Washington now has a Computation Linguistics Professional Masters Program which is interesting, perhaps some day I’ll put all those undergraduate linguistics classes I took to “good” use. For now, I’ll just keep pretending to be a software developer/qa/programmer/geek.
[…] Continuations have interesting uses, for instance the ambiguous operator can be implemented with them. It would be fun to learn more about using the ambiguous operator/continuations for pronoun disambiguation, I hope that’s what I’ll get from reading Continuations and the Nature of Quantification. Once again, perhaps it’s time to go back to school finally. But we know what people like jwz have to say about computational linguistics… […]