The 73rd Language lunch, virtual poster session! To Skim or Not to Skim: An Observational Study on Electronic Academic Reading Strategies Pauliina T.E. Vuorinen – University of Edinburgh, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation – p.t.e.vuorinen@sms.ed.ac.uk Benjamin W. Tatler – University of Aberdeen Reading strategies are crucial for academic achievement but they are rarely usedContinue reading The 73rd Language Lunch

The 72nd Language Lunch Date: 2020-11-12 Location: Online Unsupervised Extractive Summarization by Simulating Human Memory Ronald Carden Acosta; Informatics; Ronald.Cardens@ed.ac.uk Sound changes, phonological processes and rhythm in Altiplateau Mexican Spanish Gilly Marchini; PPLS; G.E.M.Marchini@sms.ed.ac.uk Fine grained named entity typing beyond English Sabine Weber; Informatics; S.Weber@sms.ed.ac.uk A predictive processing approach to copredication  Christian Michel; PPLS; s1625134@ed.ac.ukContinue reading The 72nd Language Lunch

The 71st Language Lunch Date: 2020-02-13 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum The System of Long Monophthongs in Central Mount Lebanon Lebanese Georges Sakr; georges.sakr@ed.ac.uk This project aims to determine the vowel inventory of Central Mount Lebanon Lebanese (henceforth CMLL), on the basis of a comprehensive acoustic analysis of data from 19 speakers. By then running aContinue reading The 71st Language Lunch

The 70th Language Lunch Date: 2019-12-12 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum From Scan to csv – Digitising Historical Birth Record Data Mirjam Eiswirth; PPLS; s1322502@sms.ed.ac.uk Andreas Steinhauer; Economics; Andreas.Steinhauer@ed.ac.uk We have a wealth of historical data on births, deaths, and marriages from old parish records, but currently they are not available for large-scale digital analysis becauseContinue reading The 70th Language Lunch

The 68th Language Lunch Date: 2019-06-13 Location: Basement concourse of 7 George Square Ambiguity in Explicit Discourse Connective Bonnie Webber; bonnie@inf.ed.ac.uk In a well-known paper, Pitler & Nenkova (2009) discussed usage ambiguity and sense ambiguity of explicit discourse connectives like ‘when’ and ‘since’.rnAnnotation of the PDTB-3 has revealed that explicit discourse connectives are also subjectContinue reading The 68th Language Lunch

The 69th Language Lunch Date: 2019-10-24 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Regional Variation in Scottish T-glottaling Lauren Hall-Lew; LEL; Lauren.Hall-Lew@ed.ac.uk Nina Markl; s1446117@sms.ed.ac.uk Brandon Papineau; None; None Matthew Sung; s1511479@sms.ed.ac.uk T-glottaling is a well-studied variable in UK English and a well-known feature of Scottish varieties. Speaker age, gender, social class, and formality of talk are typicalContinue reading The 69th Language Lunch

The 67th Language Lunch Date: 2019-04-11 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Modelling lexical interactions in diachronic corpora Andres Karjus; a.karjus@sms.ed.ac.uk Richard A. Blythe Simon Kirby Kenny,Smith Large diachronic text corpora enable a data-based approach to the study of language change dynamics. The development of unsupervised methods for the inference of semantic similarity, semantic change and polysemyContinue reading The 67th Language Lunch

The 66th Language Lunch Date: 2019-02-14 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum A Quantitative Analysis of Political Change on Eighteenth-Century Scots Sarah van Eyndhoven; S1890120@sms.ed.ac.uk The Union of the Parliaments between Scotland and England in 1707 seemed to signal the final blow for the Scots language (Murison, 1979), opening the doors for political and linguistic assimilation. YetContinue reading The 66th Language Lunch

The 65th Language Lunch Date: 2018-12-13 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Why do-support in Scots is different Lisa Gotthard; s1242025@sms.ed.ac.uk Previous work on Scots syntax tends to assume that do-support follows the English pattern (e.g. Görlach, 2002) despite the fact that Scots exhibited variability between do-support and verb-raising for much longer than English (e.g. Jonas, 2002).Continue reading The 65th Language Lunch

The 64th Language Lunch Date: 2018-10-25 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum A Check of the Linguistic Validity of Parts of Speech Features Used in Native Language Identification Tasks Shilin Gao; s.gao-14@sms.ed.ac.uk My research topic is Native Language Identification (NLI) where researchers attempt to tell the author’s first language in an anonymous English-as-a-second-language (ESL) text from differentContinue reading The 64th Language Lunch