I was inspired by the The Daily Show's segment on Monday to write this post relating some work that I did a few years ago with Sabina Tabacaru on the meaning of the phrase "raising eyebrows". May 12th definitely raised some eyebrows
https://open.substack.com/pub/raybecker/p/may-12th-definitely-raised-some-eyebrows?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
May 12th definitely raised some eyebrows
The phrase “raised eyebrows” is deceptively simple but semantically ambiguous given its meaning hinges on subtle contextual cues that both humans and AI systems often struggle to resolve.
Ray’s SubstackIt was my last weekend with the amazing people at the Centre for Argument Technology. I learned so much about this interesting area of philosophy and computation corpus linguistics. Let's see what the future holds
The wildflowers in Dundee are in full bloom. I've never really noticed them before this summer. At least I got to enjoy them during my last week in Scotland (for now anyway)
Current state of grant writing
New report on two experiments on the topic of embodied cognition, visual search, and creativity by Soran Malaie, Michael Spivey, and Tyler Marghetis, "Divergent and Convergent Creativity Are Different Kinds of Foraging"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241245695Here's a really great new paper on symbolic/embodied cognition with a focus on event structure by John Hollander and Andrew Olney, "Raising the Roof: Situating Verbs in Symbolic and Embodied Language Processing"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.13442