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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