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Getting to Know Your Corpus

Corpora are not easy to get a handle on. The usual way of getting to grips with text is to read it, but corpora are mostly too big to read (and not designed to be read). We show, with examples, how keyword lists (of one corpus vs. another) are a direct, practical and fascinating way to explore the characteristics of corpora, and of text types. Our method is to classify the top one hundred keywo...

New Year's resolution: get to know Chikungunya.

Happy New Year to all of our NEHA family and friends! It is the start of a new year and hopefully a short winter. I hope you had a safe and happy holiday season with family and friends. Winter makes us think of snow skiing, sledding, and ice skating, but it also makes us yearn for spring and warm weather. Winter seems to last forever when you wish for sunshine and warm breezes. Many of you will...

Do Fielders Know Where to Go to Catch the Ball or Only How to Get There?

Skilled fielders were filmed as they ran backward or forward to catch balls projected toward them from a bowling machine 45 m away. They ran at a speed that kept the acceleration of the tangent of the angle of elevation of gaze to the ball at 0. This algorithm does not tell fielders where or when the ball will land, but it ensures that they run through the place where the ball drops to catch he...

How to get your paper published.

Getting published depends heavily on starting with a well-designed, well-executed research question that is accurately described, and submitting it to a journal with an appropriate audience.