I hope this idea of using poekn will grow and people will start using it actively
Sep 29, 2010
Sep 21, 2010
GraceHopper Conference 2010
I am planning to attend the Grace Hopper Conference as a student volunteer and blogger this month ; though I could not avail myself of any scholarship, thankfully my professor is sponsoring my travel :)
I hope to meet the HCI community and learn about what other researchers are thinking in this direction. I have no scientific data but in my experience I saw the participation of women researcher in this field of Computer Science is pretty encouraging, and this year GHC 2010 has special session about Visualization and HCI, and I am already excited about the GA Tech HCI Lab tour !
The use of social networking sites like facebook and twitter has added much flavor to the community this year. Hope I will meet a lot of enthusiastic ladies and have a great time at Atlanta.
I hope to meet the HCI community and learn about what other researchers are thinking in this direction. I have no scientific data but in my experience I saw the participation of women researcher in this field of Computer Science is pretty encouraging, and this year GHC 2010 has special session about Visualization and HCI, and I am already excited about the GA Tech HCI Lab tour !
Sep 1, 2010
Pragmatic ambiguity
I enrolled myself into the Computational Linguistics course this semester, so far we had one lecture and I am supposed to submit the homework tomorrow, though I do not have the text book yet.
Our professor discussed about structural ambiguity and I was thinking of possible example in Bengali, and still thinking. In English, if we say The girl hit the boy with a book, it can be parsed two ways: The girl [hit the boy], with a book; or The girl hit [the boy with a book]. The reason for this ambiguity is the use of the preposition 'with', it can mean both things.
I was looking for examples on Pragmatic ambiguity for the homework. So what about this sentence: "Is the program running?": a correct sentence in all sense, but am I asking if a program is being aired on TV or a being executed in computer ? Depends upon in what situation I am speaking and who am I speaking to.
However, now I feel thankful to my 8th grade Bengali grammar book, yesterday when the professor was talking about morphology, phonology etc. I just remembered the examples from that grammar book with the Sanskrit based Bangla words; who could think this will come handy in my computer science graduate studies !
Our professor discussed about structural ambiguity and I was thinking of possible example in Bengali, and still thinking. In English, if we say The girl hit the boy with a book, it can be parsed two ways: The girl [hit the boy], with a book; or The girl hit [the boy with a book]. The reason for this ambiguity is the use of the preposition 'with', it can mean both things.
I was looking for examples on Pragmatic ambiguity for the homework. So what about this sentence: "Is the program running?": a correct sentence in all sense, but am I asking if a program is being aired on TV or a being executed in computer ? Depends upon in what situation I am speaking and who am I speaking to.
However, now I feel thankful to my 8th grade Bengali grammar book, yesterday when the professor was talking about morphology, phonology etc. I just remembered the examples from that grammar book with the Sanskrit based Bangla words; who could think this will come handy in my computer science graduate studies !
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