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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Natural Language Processing
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”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”S + 7 in 1
All-in for DIY textual oddities …
Continue reading “S + 7 in 1”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.
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