http://maxbane.com ars sine scientia nihil est Tue, 11 May 2010 21:56:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Version 1.4 of cascadilla.cls, my LaTeX class for typesetting articles according to the Cascadilla Proceedings Project's stylesheet (used by WCCFL and other linguistic conferences) is now available. http://maxbane.com/?p=35 Jason Riggle, Morgan Sonderegger and I have posted a paper proving that the VC dimension of Harmonic Grammar is k+1 for k constraints, which is the same value as has been shown for Optimality Theory. In this paper we analyze the complexity of Harmonic Grammar (HG), a linguistic model in which ... http://maxbane.com/?p=30 I'm happy to report that Jason Riggle and I have had our submission accepted to the SIGMORPHON 2008 Workshop, which takes place concurrently with the annual meeting of the ACL at The Ohio State University this June 19th. The citation of the paper is as follows: Bane, Max and Jason Riggle. To ... http://maxbane.com/?p=25 I recently went through the odyssey of typesetting a paper for WCCFL 26 in LaTeX. WCCFL, along with a number of other conferences, publishes its proceedings through the Cascadilla Proceedings Project, which unfortunately provides no LaTeX package for authors to implement its style sheet. Some of the requirements were sufficiently ... http://maxbane.com/?p=18 I gave a talk yesterday on "Multilingual Learning as Parameter Co-occurrence Clustering", as part of the CAS Language and Cognition workshop series. The handout is available here. http://maxbane.com/?p=17 My colleagues Jason Riggle, James Kirby, John Sylak and I have had our submission "Distinguishing Grammars in Multilingual Learning Using Parameter Co-occurrence" accepted to the January 3-6, 2008 annual meeting of the LSA as a 20-minute presentation. We'll be speaking January 5th at 11:30, in a session yet to be ... http://maxbane.com/?p=15 Well, my new Wordpress-based site is up and running. Unfortunately most of the content from my previous site has been lost to a catastrophic hard drive failure. So it goes... http://maxbane.com/?p=10