"If we want to finish, we have to start."
Donka Farkas, before giving an invited talk at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2011, December 21st 2011.
"Tot es pot mapejar." ("Everything can be mapped.")
Montse Cuadros, personal communication, March 22nd 2010.
"Aren't n-grams sort of NLPish?"
Anonymous student, The University of Texas at Austin, October 2012.
"I used that dataset 'cause it already had numbers attached to it."
Another anonymous student, The University of Texas at Austin,
April 2012.
"Mama, com es van inventar, les paraules?" ("Mom, how were words invented?")
A 7-year-old child to her mother, whispering in the dark, already in bed, July 12th 2012.
"Mama, per què hi ha paraules que volen dir dues coses?" ("Mom, why are there words that mean two things?")
Same child, also at bedtime, February 5th 2013.
"Per què el llenguatge és com és, i no d'una altra manera?" ("Why is language the way it is, and not any other way?")
Same child, translating her little brother's question for her mom, October 2014.
"Quina va ser la primera paraula?" ("What was the first word?")
The 6-year old brother, at dinner time, October 2014.
"the fact of polysemy reveals that it is apparently easier for people to take old words and extend them
to new meanings than to invent new words."
Gregory L. Murphy, 2002, The big book of concepts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. 406.
"I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."
Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green (1965), quoted in Wikiquote.
"I think what happens when you get a bit older is that you are very clear about what you want to do and what you don’t want to do"
Jodie Foster in an interview, 2017.
"because resources are finite, every sensible thing we do is another sensible thing we don't"
Daniel Gilbert, Buried by Bad Decisions, 2011
"I am hundreds of people"
Jamie Lee Curtis at the Oscars ceremony, 2023.
computational linguistic(s): "computational running with sticks" / "competition on the Mystic"
noun phrases: "non-phrases"
sigmoid: "sick mind"