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.

I may have mono. Swell

Poor bassons. Inadvertently got equated with the sound of big business.

Woot! Got accepted to RANLP!

The glottal stop is indicated using a question mark...Glottal stops are used exclusively for interrogatives.

That's gonna be easy to remember.

I'm nervous about going to Montreal. Never traveled internationally solo before 🛩️

Fezzik is incredibly useful: https://github.com/TsurHerman/Fezzik .

Ordinarily, julia does jit compilation. You are compiling highly specialized versions of functions at runtime. This can be a bit annoying for start up times since the compiler has to jit compile everything the first time you call a function. Fezzik watches what you do until you tell it to build and then it compiles a new julia image with the packages and functions you used. Start up is so fast now!

@bgcarlisle how essential is speaking French in Montreal?

Til about the hyphenat package for latex and the \nohyphen command.

Really wish I would have know about that two years ago.

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i'm trying to get work done

I got the Fred Householder outstanding graduate paper award!

This is my last friday section i'll teach :( it's been a blast and I've learned so much.