New paper! McLean & Dingemanse 2025, A multi-methods toolkit for documentary research on ideophones. In which we review a diversity of methods and analytical approaches to the documentation of ideophones.
Sketches, visualizations and other forms of externalizing cognition play a prominent role in the work of just about any scientist. It’s why we love using blackboards, whiteboards, notebooks and scraps of paper. I rarely rave about tools (to each their own, etc.) but here I write about the Remarkable, an e-paper device that has changed my habits for the better in several ways: I’ve been reading more, taking more notes, writing more, and also doodling and sketching more. I would describe it as a distraction-free piece of technology with just the right affordances.
Always plot your data. We’re working with conversational corpora and looking at timing data. What do you do when distributions look off?
Via Language Log, a nice tutorial titled Interactive Visualization for Computational Linguistics [PDF, 13,1 Mb] by Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn,…
Great news for those who are into visual corpus linguistics but don’t work on SAE languages: since July, Wordle handles…
A visualization of the previous two posts on Many Eyes and Siwu ne Because recursivity is a Good Thing, here…
Lots of readers looked at the challenge I posted last week (my blog statistics say more than 450 views for…
I recently came across Many Eyes, a nifty data visualisation tool by IBM’s Visual Communication Lab. It has lots of…