I See Dead Code

Beginnings After the bleak, joyless work of releasing software, plugging holes of preventing users from clicking buttons they should not have clicked in the first place, writing unctuous documentation and release notes and wrapping code into neat little installers with tiny bows and bells that gently tingle when touched, there are few things as profoundly [...]

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My Master thesis “Integration of Light-weight Semantics into a Syntax Query Formalism” is available from the SALSA project pages. Abstract In the Computational Linguistics community, much work is put into the creation of large, high-quality linguistic resources, often with complex annotation. In order to make these resources accessible to nontechnical audiences, formalisms for searching and [...]

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It is possible to write custom GTK widgets that have “native” scrolling support, as opposed to just shoving them into a GtkViewPort and forgetting about them. Apart from having mastered a small coding challenge, as it turned out to be, this also gives you greater control over the scrolling itself, like making sure that certain [...]

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Even before I started working at UZH, I got my new hardware. Back in February, when I visited Zürich to look for rooms, I was offered to choose a new notebook for myself. Since I already have a large notebook (at least that’s what I consider my 14.1″ T61) and toyed around with the idea [...]

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… berühmte & tagesaktuelle politische Zitate in parallelen Korpora.

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