Wednesday 8 April 2009

I get readers: odd ones

I had a visitor from Catonsville, Maryland in the middle of the night. To this blog, you understand. I'm not sure I'd have wanted him or her visiting my house because they'd Googled 'computational linguistics porn'.

I'm stunned. I know a lot of computational linguistics practitioners, and they've never mentioned the field. Is it an underground thing? Or is this person ahead of the curve? There may be a gap in the market?

'Hi there. I'm here to, uh, resolve your anaphora'.
'Oh, thank God you're here. I've also been struggling with automatic abstracting'.
'Yes, I can see that by the rips in your lingerie. Want some Natural Language Processing advice?
'Why, you're one cunning linguist!'

I thankyewverymuch, I'm available for weddings and children's parties.

2 comments:

Benjamin Judge said...

Congratulations. From such unusual beginnings you managed to end a post with the worlds oldest joke. I take my hat off to you.

The Plashing Vole said...

Yes, I was rather proud of that myself. It was worth the buildup.