Timeo Danaos… Or: Why I’m Wary of Google Docs
During the last couple of weeks I had to use Google Docs quite heavily in order to work on a large, collaborative document. Without any doubt, Google Docs is a convenient platform for collaborative...
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Cerstin Mahlow recently had a very good blog post on storing your publication list online with services such as ResearchGate, Mendeley, or Academia.edu. Cerstin expressed a preference for CiteULike,...
View ArticleMendeley Revisited
A while ago, in a post titled Yet Another Publication List?, I ranted about the proliferation of online reference managers and speculated about their business models. A comment by William Gunn, Head of...
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For a change, this post is actually related to NLP. It’s about rules, but not the linguistic kind, but those that govern our research communities. Not all proceedings are proceedings For ACL 2017, the...
View ArticleAnd “NLP” means…
In the post Writing for Hypotheses in Org-mode, I described how much better blogging becomes once you can directly post from your Emacs. This is a long overdue update. Because, unfortunately,...
View ArticleDigital Humanities Publishing
I have a long-standing interest in electronic digital publishing. In fact, my first job after getting my master’s degree was with a large scientific publisher, so besides having the experience of an...
View ArticleForward to the Dark Ages of Document Processing!
I recently finished and submitted an article for a journal. Apart from submissions in “*.doc / *.docx, *.rtf or *.odt,” as it says on the journal’s Web site, the agreement I signed actually also...
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