Christopher PhippsLinguistics on TV — Criminal Minds s9 RecapGenerally season 9 included more linguistics than season 8, but still just lingo nuggets. They never fully realized forensic linguistics…Aug 19, 2020Aug 19, 2020
Christopher PhippsLinguistics on TV — Criminal Minds s9 ‘To Bear Witness’Reader, I tell you there may be no other hour of TV more frustrating to a linguist than the the fourth episode of the ninth season of…Aug 3, 2020Aug 3, 2020
Christopher PhippsLinguistics on TV — Criminal Minds Season 8 RecapI watched every episode of Criminal Minds season 8, the one where they introduce the character of Dr. Alex Blake, forensic linguist.Jul 21, 2020Jul 21, 2020
Christopher PhippsLinguistics on TV — Criminal MindsThe TV show Criminal Minds had a forensic linguist character for two seasons (2012–2014) named Dr. Alex Blake. I watched the first episode…Jul 13, 2020Jul 13, 2020
Christopher PhippsTV Linguistics — Pronouncify.com and the fictional Princeton Linguistics department[reposted from 11/20/10]Feb 17, 2020Feb 17, 2020
Christopher PhippsHow to create a custom NLU annotation without writing a line of codeIBM Watson Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a cloud-based Watson service that enables developers to easily and quickly extract and…Dec 5, 2017Dec 5, 2017
Christopher PhippsA linguist asks some questions about word vectorsI have at best a passing familiarity with word vectors, strictly from a 30,000 foot view. I’ve never directly used them outside a handful…Oct 18, 2017Oct 18, 2017
Christopher PhippsNuts and Bolts of Applying Deep Learning (Andrew Ng)I recently watched Andrew Ng’s excellent lecture from 2016 Nuts and Bolts of Applying Deep Learning and took notes. I post them as a…Sep 15, 2017Sep 15, 2017
Christopher PhippsNLPers: How would you characterize your linguistics background?That was the poll question my hero Professor Emily Bender posed on Twitter March 30th. 573 tweets later, a truly epic thread had been…Apr 9, 2017Apr 9, 2017
Christopher PhippsinChatbots LifeUsing IBM Watson Knowledge Studio to Train Machine Learning ModelsUsing the Free Trial version of IBM’s Watson Knowledge Studio, I just annotated a text and created a machine learning model in about 3…Mar 22, 2017Mar 22, 2017