#computational linguists

[yesterdays-xkcd]

Chomskyists, generative linguists, and Ryan North, your days are numbered.

Computational Linguists [Explained]

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[Black Hat is standing next to a large badge that says FUCK Computational Linguistics.] Black Hat: And the dumbest thing about emo kids is that... I... You know, I'm sick of easy targets. Anyone can make fun of emo kids. You know who's had it too easy? Computational Linguists. "Ooh, look at me! My field is so ill-defined, I can subscribe to any of dozens of contradictory models and still be taken seriously!"

[allthingslinguistic]

I told a friend a few days ago that quite a few linguists work in tech, and they were surprised and asked what exactly they did there. I had a general idea but went on Twitter to gather more information, and here’s what I came up with.

A helpful #linguistics jobs post on Tal Linzen’s blog about linguists working in tech. A few examples: 

I work with a bunch of “Analytical Linguists”: they project-manage, design and run experiments/annotation tasks, do error analyses, create phoneme/phonotactic inventories and morphonological specs, and write & test finite-state grammars. (Anonymous)

I have, for various employers, created linguistic complexity metrics, analyzed syntactic parser output, developed and utilized semantic annotation schemes, created NLP training data, reviewed automated metaphor tools, architected NLP solutions. (@lousylinguist)

My partner is in charge of creating linguistic resources and is in charge of the level support to help pp disambiguate their search queries in a specialized search engine. Every too wide queries costs many $$$$ to her company. (@zehavoc)

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