Showing posts with label anaphora resolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anaphora resolution. Show all posts

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.