Category Archives: language

Compiling Rmutt on MacOSX Leopard (gcc -arch x86_64)

Keeping my notes findable: Rmutt on MacOSX will build cleanly if you change the CC line in the Makefile to be:
CC = gcc -arch x86_64
That is all. For those who haven’t tried it, Rmutt is a grammar-based nonsense generator along the lines of the Dada Engine (see also Web version). The Dada Engine powers the [...]

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Language Expertise in FOAF: Speaks, Reads, Writes revisited

Stephanie Booth asks:

 I vaguely remember somebody telling me about some emerging “standard” (too big a word) for encoding language skills. Or was it a dream?

That would’ve been me, showing markup from the FOAFX beta from Paola Di Maio and friends, which explores the extension of FOAF with expertise information. This is part of the ExpertFinder [...]

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Microblogs and the monolingual

Twitter-like microblogging seems a nice granularity for following thoughts expressed in languages you don’t speak.
In 1988 I passed my French language GCSE exam; it’s been downhill all the way since. A year ago in Argentina, I got to the stage where I could just about express myself in Spanish. But it’s been fading. Nevertheless I’m [...]

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