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Wordwatchers - 1 views

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shared by Lisa Stewart on 25 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Lisa Stewart on 25 Feb 11
     
    Blog devoted to analyzing language of public figures
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Reprinted research on psychology and language - 3 views

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  • Lisa Stewart on 25 Feb 11
     
    links to Pennebaker's research, such as how using pronouns flexibly is linked to mental and physical health!?
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Language Log - 0 views

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  • mmaretzki on 25 Feb 11
     
    A blog about language
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BBC NEWS | UK | England | West Midlands | Reading between the lines - 0 views

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  • mmaretzki on 25 Feb 11
     
    Hey, I thought I bookmarked this one and now Diigo is crediting you!
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The Science Behind AnalyzeWords.com - 4 views

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  • mmaretzki on 24 Feb 11
     
    This site claims to "analyze" the words we use; more importantly though, it lists a number of useful links at the bottom of the page.
  • Lisa Stewart on 24 Feb 11
     
    Mark, you've almost overtaken Mary Keller! But will you ever catch up to Ryan?!
  • mmaretzki on 25 Feb 11
     
    Ryan had a bit of a head start...
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Guest Post: English, Improved - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Ryan Catalani on 11 Nov 10
     
    "There is a reason why neither Globish nor Basic caught on in a mainstream way, and that reason is the basis of the English language's growing global power."
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How Watson Trounced the Humans : Word Routes : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - 0 views

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  • Ryan Catalani on 24 Feb 11
     
    "The field of natural language processing doesn't usually get showcased in a widely watched game show, but that's exactly what happened on Jeopardy! over the last three evenings, as IBM's Watson supercomputer squared off against the two best humans ever to play the game."
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IBM Watson Research Team Answers Your Questions - 0 views

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  • Ryan Catalani on 24 Feb 11
     
    Including answers to questions such as: - Can you walk us through the logic Watson would go through to answer a question such as, "The antagonist of Stevenson's Treasure Island." (Who is Long John Silver?) - ...I found myself wondering whether what it does is really natural language processing, or something more akin to word association... does Watson really need to understand syntax and meaning to just search its database for words and phrases associated with the words and phrases in the clue?
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Forensic Linguistics Project - Hofstra College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - Hofstra Uni... - 1 views

www.hofstra.edu/...FLP forensic_linguistics
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  • Lisa Stewart on 23 Feb 11
     
    Want to Study Forensic Linguistics in college?
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Secrets of a Mind-Gamer - NYTimes.com - 9 views

www.nytimes.com/...mind-secrets.html rhetoric brain memory oral_cultures literacy
shared by Lisa Stewart on 21 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • To improve, we have to be constantly pushing ourselves beyond where we think our limits lie and then pay attention to how and why we fail.
  • I went to the hardware store and bought a pair of industrial-grade earmuffs and a pair of plastic laboratory safety goggles. I spray-painted them black and drilled a small eyehole through each lens. Henceforth I would always wear them to practice.
  • My first assignment was to begin collecting architecture. Before I could embark on any serious degree of memory training, I first needed a stockpile of palaces at my disposal. I revisited the homes of old friends and took walks through famous museums, and I built entirely new, fantastical structures in my imagination. And then I carved each building up into cubbyholes for my memories.
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  • Memory palaces don’t have to be palatial — or even actual buildings. They can be routes through a town or signs of the zodiac or even mythical creatures. They can be big or small, indoors or outdoors, real or imaginary, so long as they are intimately familiar. The four-time U.S. memory champion Scott Hagwood uses luxury homes featured in Architectural Digest to store his memories
  • The point of memory techniques to take the kinds of memories our brains aren’t that good at holding onto and transform them into the kinds of memories our brains were built for.
  • Today we write things down precisely so we don’t have to remember them, but through the late Middle Ages, books were thought of not just as replacements for memory but also as aides-mémoire.
  • Lisa Stewart on 21 Feb 11
     
    describes techniques that memory-athletes use
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How words get the message across : Nature News - 0 views

www.nature.com/...news.2011.40.html
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  • Ryan Catalani on 19 Feb 11
     
    "Longer words tend to carry more information, according to research by a team of cognitive scientists.... Piantadosi and colleagues suggest that the relationship of word length to information content might not only make it more efficient to convey information linguistically but also make language cognition a smoother ride for the reader or listener."
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