(I just expounded on a point as a twitter reply today re the granularity of one's thinking/processing. Pls feel free to read that also.)
One can think of it in a less binary manner --- not "good" vs "bad", not "words" then "sentences", but to think of an utterance/sequence with all the finer connections in between... That is the beauty of language --- from a "philological" point of view. I am not sure, though, if you were speaking from a scientific perspective, because I have a paper to back my argument in that regard. On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 6:06 PM Sylvain Kahane <sylv...@kahane.fr> wrote: > “We’re destroying words–scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re > cutting the language down to the bone.” […] > > “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great > advantage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns > that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there are also > the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is > simply the opposite of some other words? A word contains its opposite in > itself. Take ‘good,’ for instance. If you have a word like ‘good,’ what > need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well–better, > because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you > want a stronger version of ‘good,’ what sense is there in having a whole > string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the > rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you > want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already, but in > the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the > whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words–in > reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that, Ada?…” > > George Orwell, 1984 > > > > Le 20 juin 2022 à 17:33, Ada Wan <adawan...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > Hi Christopher, > > > > It is of the best interest of the community to discontinue the usage of > "word". The term is not only very shaky in its foundation (if any), but it > can also effect disparity in performance in computational processing and > robustness when human evaluation is involved. > > Despite the term has been casually adopted by many in the past, like > many un-PC terms that may have an inappropriate undertone, it needs to be > discouraged and abandoned. > > Last but not least, I noticed that you are located in Canada, in the > event that you were to work with any indigenous communities, one MUST be > advised to be careful with the usage of such term --- you could be imposing > your own (EN- / FR- / dominant language-centric) view onto another > individual/community. There is an element of cultural and linguistic > hegemony with the usage of such term (including and not limited to making > applications with it). > > Please also consult recent work in this area: > https://openreview.net/forum?id=-llS6TiOew. > > > > Feel free to get in touch if you should have any questions. > > > > Best, > > Ada > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 4:53 PM Christopher Collins < > christopher.coll...@ontariotechu.ca> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I’m looking for any open source or cloud-hosted solution for complex > word identification or word difficulty rating in French for a reading > application. > > > > > > > > As a backup plan we can use measures like corpus frequency, length, > number of senses, but we’re hoping someone has already made a tool > available. > > > > > > > > We found this but that’s it: https://github.com/sheffieldnlp/cwi > > > > > > > > Would appreciate any tips! > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > Christopher Collins [he/him] > > Associate Professor - Faculty of Science > > Canada Research Chair in Linguistic Information Visualization > > Ontario Tech University > > vialab.ca > > > > _______________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora > > Corpora mailing list -- corpora@list.elra.info > > To unsubscribe send an email to corpora-le...@list.elra.info > > _______________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora > > Corpora mailing list -- corpora@list.elra.info > > To unsubscribe send an email to corpora-le...@list.elra.info > >
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