{"id":4484,"date":"2013-02-20T09:33:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2013-02-20T09:33:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:33:37","slug":"keith-chen-at-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4484","title":{"rendered":"Keith Chen at TED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/02\/19\/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior\/\">Saving for a rainy day: Keith Chen on language that forecasts weather \u2014 and behavior<\/a>\", TED Blog 2\/19\/2013:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Back when my first paper on this topic circulated, many linguists were appropriately skeptical of the work. Their concerns are concisely explained in two well-thought out posts (<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3764\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3756\">here<\/a>) by the linguists Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum on the blog they founded, <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/\">Language Log<\/a>. Mark and Geoffrey also invited me to write a guest post explaining the work. In that <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3792\">post<\/a>, I discuss which of their possible concerns are unlikely given the patterns I find across the world in people\u2019s savings and health behaviors, and also try to clarify which of their concerns I was not yet able to address. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This exchange prompted a broad set of discussions as to what different types of data, analyses and experiments could, in principle, answer the questions raised by the patterns I find. Cross-disciplinary discussions took place in a subsequent post by <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3797\">Julie Sedivy<\/a> and followup posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4180\">Mark Liberman<\/a>, and also at the Linguistic Data Consortium\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldc.upenn.edu\/About\/20th_Anniversary_Workshop_Program.html\">20th Anniversary Workshop<\/a>. Several new avenues of investigation and work came out of these interactions, three of which are now ongoing projects.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Saving for a rainy day: Keith Chen on language that forecasts weather \u2014 and behavior\", TED Blog 2\/19\/2013: Back when my first paper on this topic circulated, many linguists were appropriately skeptical of the work. Their concerns are concisely explained in two well-thought out posts (here and here) by the linguists Mark Liberman and Geoffrey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}