Villanelle don Imirceach
Dán uaim in Comhar na míosa seo darb ainm "Villanelle don Imirceach"
A poem by me in this month's Comhar, entitled "Villanelle don Imirceach" ("A Villanelle for the Emigrant")
http://www.iriscomhar.com/nuacht2.php?ID=25&PHPSESSID=e6e04c99f9d97b63f66899ecca2030d4Labels: comhar, Éire, emigration, gaeilge, Gaelic, Gaeltacht, Ireland, iris, irish, literary, poem, poetry
Review of Martin Weisser's Essential Programming for Linguistics (University of Edinburgh Press)
[a few lines from my review of this book. The full review is available through the link at the bottom of this posting]
Book
Review
Essential
Programming for Linguistics
Martin
Weisser
Bayreuth
University, Germany.
Edinburgh
University Press (Edinburgh Advanced Textbooks in Linguistics, edited by Peter
Ackema and Mitsuhiko Ota); x+174pp, Edinburgh, UK; hardbound ISBN 978 0 7486
3855 0, $115; paperbound, ISBN 78 0 7486 3856 7, $29.50.
Reviewed
by
Brian Ó
Broin
William
Paterson University
This is a very disappointing book to come out of such a reputable
publishing house. Weisser claims that the book is “mainly intended [...] for
linguists without any prior programming experience” (1), but as just such a
scholar, with nevertheless considerable experience in multiple operating
systems and open-source software, this reviewer found the book almost useless
as a Perl primer for linguists.
In truth, there is little in this book that is not already
available in the much-friendlier Programming for Linguists by Michael
Hammond (Blackwell, 2003), which remains the best Perl introduction for linguists.
*Note: I see that Martin Weisser has responded below. I still stand by everything I say in the review.*
https://aclweb.org/anthology-new/J/J10/J10-4014.pdfLabels: computational linguistics, cpan, linguistics, perl, programming, regex, weisser
Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Read Aloud
It occurs to me that I never actually sent out the new address for my recordings of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales read aloud by me. Some files are better than others, depending on what machine I was using to record on at the time. Here is the new address. Thanks to William Paterson University (WPUNJ), and particularly the IT staff there, for permitting me to house the recordings on their Nova website.
Brian Ó Broin
http://nova.wpunj.edu/obroinb/ChaucerRecordings/chaucerindex.htmlLabels: audiobook, canterbury tales, chaucer, general prologue, knight's tale, middle english, miller's tale, nun's priest's tale, pardoner's tale, prioress's tale, read aloud, reeve's tale, wife of bath
Toghcháin 2012 / 2012 Elections
Na Toghcháin Eile
- Aiste ar na Toghcháin don Seanad agus do Theach na nIonadaithe atá ar
siúl i mbliana. Tugann le fios go gcaithfidh páirtí an bhuaiteora ceann
den dá theach seo a thógáil freisin chun greim a choinneáil ar smacht.
"The Other Elections"
- An Essay on the Congressional and Senate elections also being held
this year. Makes the point that a Presidential victory matters very
little unless the winner's party also takes one of these two houses.
Labels: 2012, elections, house of representatives, obama, romney, senate, United States
