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When I was PC co-Chair of #ALT2017 (ALT now gets 100-200 submissions), we carefully assigned PC members to each paper based on their interests and the paper topics.
This isn't feasible at big machine learning conferences, which have 2 orders of magnitude more submissions.
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Re #ICML2021 reviews. The system is broken. We are at the stage where mostly non-experts evaluate the work of experts. It is now a very rare occurrence to receive an educated and scholarly review. Can a football player evaluate the technique and performance of a cyclist? No.
Happy 25th Birthday @alt_travel #AlternativeTravelAwards Who was there in 2002? Only 15 yrs ago. When we were young and studious #Alt25 #Alt2017 https://t.co/vg2uA2uO5r
It's the rather fab #AlternativeTravelAwards tonight. Happy anniversary @alt_travel Here's the 2001 Awards, a mere 16yrs ago, when we were all so young &oh so much prettier https://t.co/Br7QmyiG7N #Alt25 #Alt2017
Applying linguistics to development: it's crucial for dev workers in countries like PNG to understand the operation of grammatical markers of who knows what “in order to establish plausibility and trust in the message they wish to convey." Nick Evans on Sillitoe (2010) #alt2017
In Duna you have five different evidential markers depending on your source of information. If "a pig dug up my garden", you can mark if your source of info is visual, sensory (heard her in the night), results (saw the furrows she made), reasoning, or reported. #alt2017
Papuan language Nen has a unique senary (power of 6) counting system for yams. A family is said to need one damno of yams (1,296) to get through a year. #alt2017
Nick Evans: Over half all Papuan languages are tonal and many Austronesian languages that have “cuddled up to them” have tone too. Iau (Lakes Plain) language is said to have 8 basic contrastive tones. #ALT2017
The greatest discovery of Robinson in his PhD on Papuan language Rotokas was that it had an /s/ phoneme, meaning it no longer had the world’s smallest phoneme inventory. Nick Evans: “not surprising given the name of the language (!)" #ALT2017
Neighbournet based on WALS data with 50 Papuan languages and 50 other - the Papuan languages are scattered around the clock. Nick: "Whatever languages can do, there’s a Papuan out there doing it." #ALT2017
#alt2017 "It is now generally agreed that New Guinea communities have purposely fostered linguistic diversity because they have seen language as a highly salient marked of group identity." Nick Evans quoting Don Kulick
Nordlinger & Mansfield: Many Aus langs have fallen silent, but some are still going fine. Kriol’s huge. So are mixed langs, which borrow elements from multiple langs.
Still blows me away that Pama-Nyungan langs typically lack voice contrast (ex: b&p same) & fricatives.
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Nick Evans: "Papuan" languages is a negatively defined term - "being in a particular place and not being something else.” When we take out the Austronesian and Australian languages between E Indonesia and the Solomons, “Papuan” is what is left. #ALT2017
#ALT2017 kicks off! Nick Evans: take the languages of Eurasia, from Ireland to Japan, from N Siberia to Sri Lanka “in all their diversity at every level” and shrink that down to this island - “that’s New Guinea.” “It’s beyond our imagination and beyond any explanation at present”
I'll be in Canberra next week giving two talks at #ALT2017: "Chaining chains: Tail-head linkage and other devices for linking clause chains in Aguaruna (Chicham)" on Wed and "Frustrative and the grammatical expression of emotion" on Thu. Buy me a beer if you see me there!
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