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Arguments

13 Oct 2008
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So this is what it says on the top of the Miloping front page:

Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies…

Now maybe it's just me, but disagreeing with friends is not a bad thing. Having an argument sounds really bad, but is actually a really constructive thing to do, as long as you do it properly.

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What I Used To Do

15 Jun 2008
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So here is a description of something I did a couple of weekends ago at Uni for my thesis. Hopefully you'll get some idea what I spent 3 years doing.

What I needed to do was a statistical significance test, that is, comparing two models to see if their results were actually any different. This guy, Dan Bikel, had written a script to do this, here: Randomized Parsing Evaluation Comparator. Only problem was it was in Perl, which as we all know, sucks hard, and also blows. So I rewrote the thing in Python, yay Python!

Here's what it does. You take two input files that look like this:
Sent. Matched Bracket Cross Correct Tag
ID Len. Stat. Recal Prec.

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