Now that you mention them …
All that work in identifying names in Photo-Era is paying off. I have started looking at some of the aspects of how people, but especially women, are mentioned in Photo-Era.
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Related to human language
Name that name
[Updated 2023-02-17 with chart]
Finding names automatically in texts is hard! (This is a more technical post.)
Continue reading “Name that name”A new era for an old Era
I have been working on a variety of tools to explore the contents of the monthly magazine Photo-Era, which was published from 1898 to 1932. I have just made one of those tools freely available: a way to search the text of all of the issues: Photo-Era Search.
Continue reading “A new era for an old Era”Gender association of names and nouns in English
Back when I was starting to study linguistics (in the 1980s), the syntax professors (Ivan Sag and Tom Wasow) made a point of using gender neutral names in their examples, names that can be used for both males and females, like Chris (Chris Evert and Chris Columbus), rather than John and Mary, which had typically been used in examples. The other day I was curious to see if we can get an idea of to what extent a name or a noun is used for females and males using Google Ngrams. We can, and here’s what I did.
Continue reading “Gender association of names and nouns in English”The pen’s honour
or The Case of the Brain’s Watch …
Continue reading “The pen’s honour”The Wisdom of Oz™
Using natural language processing for fun.
Continue reading “The Wisdom of Oz™”Comparing time
Timely writers …
Apples and pears
A bit of mystery …
Getting my exercise
While trying to see the forest and the trees …