I am often the only Macedonian person people have met. The most common question I get is: “what language do people speak there?”. There isn’t much about the language in English and online. For a linguistics course, I got to construct a so called “language profile”, and with it the chance to add a small part of mine out there for others to discover.

How to extend a paper reproduction project with your own experiments, improvements and reflections? I wrote more about our recent experience, what made it enjoyable instead of stressful and how we managed to get meaningful results at the end despite the computational and time constraints.

What is a paper reproduction project, and how to successfully see one through? I go through a recent experience I gathered this semester and discuss what helped the most. Some of these points are rooted in using modern software development practices when dealing with research projects/code.

My first week of university just ended. The biggest chunk went to our mandatory course called “Advanced Natural Language Processing”. We went through a lot of material around regular expressions and some basic data tools with Python. The most interesting part of my week was the introduction and thinking about “language tasks”. There is very little information if you google the term, so I needed to dig to understand it.