Kenneth Steimel @ksteimel@scholar.social

#introductions Hey everyone. I am a PhD Student in Computational Linguistics. My main research interest is computational linguistics for under resourced languages. I am particularly interested in computational linguistics for Bantu languages because of the extremely complex morphology that they bring to the table.

I am also doing research in sentiment analysis on stance detection and irony/sarcasm detection. Most of my research is on machine learning approaches.

And it feels like there's this pressure to use the room's tech features all the time which seems like a bad thing to get into. Shoehorning the tech into lessons where it doesn't make sense is not going to be a good movement for student learning.

On the other hand, it can be really useful for getting students more involved. I did an activity today where each group was supposed to find a video of the vocal tract in action, describe what we were seeing and then show the video. It went really wel

I have a tech enabled class for my Friday sections this semester. In this building that seems to mean there's two tvs instead of a projector and there's an app that students can install that allows them to put content up on the screens. Oh and dry erase instead of chalk.

I have some mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, the projector was nice because it got out of the way if I needed to use the chalk board more, these tvs are smack in the middle of where I want to write.

This abusive language detection project is interesting and has the potential to serve a good purpose but it really seems like some of my peers don't have much motivation to see it through.

Had to evacuate the building in the middle of class today. I don't think the fire alarms were for a drill. I wonder what happened.

First Friday sessions of the new semester went without a hitch. Well minus me printing one too few information sheets.

Finisished reading Hard Times! This is the first recreational book I've finished in two years!

Not gonna lie, this is an awesome Shared Task idea. I love it.

FYI: Call: Paper Offerings Shared Task Reproducibility

http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-133.html

Oof I forgot that I get charged a $70 late registration fee for signing up on the first day of classes.

Another sinus infection? I just had one a couple months ago. I should probably go see a doctor...

Not gonna lie, paperspace is making using my own gpu seem less of a good idea.

So far both of the packages I've tried to install with alien have worked without a hitch.

Didn't realize iframes were considered bad :/ bummer I just made a post with one today.

Is this a bad use of iframe? This was the only way I could figure out to make the svg interactive.
https://ksteimel.duckdns.org/cl/2018/12/20/PypySpeedtest.html

Unless I try to run it on the machine with insufficient ram. Whoops.