I sometimes read a paper, and think: how I wish I had someone around here to work on this stuff with ( Read more... )

A project idea I've written down on my notebooks: Shannon language tests, to automatically generate tests to measure language ability. The prediction task is similar to the way Shannon measured the entropy of English.

Rain has been a part of (literally) everyday life for these 3 weeks in Amsterdam. Shouldn't there be a way to tell what time it will begin to rain and what time it will stop ( Read more... )

It shouldn't be too hard to create an algorithm to identify an author's native language in English text ( Read more... )

One thing I enjoy doing is creating decision-making tools.

One such project has been itching in my mind for the past few months: a language-learning decision-maker: which language should I learn next?

Given a language L and a person P, we want to calculate P's costs and benefits in learning L.

Costs:Effort: how much work is this language for P ( Read more... )