proycon @proycon@mastodon.social

I just published my new redesigned homepage at https://proycon.anaproy.nl ! Let's not all live in centralised walled-in social networks but create our own proper corner on the web as it was designed for! #homepage

I released some fine-tuned transformer models for Dutch #NLProc: NER & PoS (CGN tagset), built on BERTje or RobBERT. Usable with huggingface's transformers, rust-bert, and later with the upcoming DeepFrog! https://github.com/proycon/deepfrog

Want to process an existing FoLiA XML document with spaCy and have rich FoLiA output? spacy2folia can do that now! (alongside plaintext to FoLiA via spacy) https://github.com/proycon/spacy2folia #nlproc #nlp

Sympatiek initiatief om het zo openbaar te doen, maar ik ben wel erg skeptisch over de #appathon van vandaag, we moeten eerst bij de kernvragen beginnen, los van welke app dan ook. Wel mooi werk van CodeForNL
met https://zijndecovidappsalopensource.nl en publieke (technische!) discussie.

We just released new versions of our full software stack: Frog, ucto, libfolia, timbl, mbt, ticcltools, PICCL and more (all in LaMachine), this will be the final release by esteemed colleague and main developer Ko van der Sloot before his retirement! #nlp #NLProc #clariah
https://proycon.github.io/LaMachine/

If there is to be a #corona app for contact tracing to prevent the spread of #covid19 in the Netherlands, then aside from all the obvious privacy requirements (decentralisation, anonymity, open source, transparency etc), there should be an open protocol that everybody can write their own clients for rather than a single authorized app (which won't work on all platforms).

I just pre-ordered my pinephone! (UBPorts community edition) https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/pinephone-ubports-community-edition-pre-orders-are-open-271

Our dog misses his best furry friend in times of quarantine... Technology to the rescue! Telewoofing together! #kooikerhondje #dog #狗

Ik snap die nieuwe elleboogbegroeting niet, is dat niet dezelfde elleboog waarin we geacht worden te niezen? Kunnen we niet gewoon een beleefd doch afstandelijk buiginkje doen zoals de japanners? #こんにちは

For comfort and explanation in time of a worldwide corona virus scare, let's turn to mathematics! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg

If I switch TV channels or turn the lights on or off, there's a big chance my doorbell rings; either I have very elusive pranksters in the neighbourhood or I have a bug in my #homeautomation

这儿在Mastodon有没有中国人？我学习汉语和找会说汉语的朋友门！ 谁想跟我练习汉语？ #中文 #chinese #mandarin

I just published my PhD thesis "Constructions as Linguistic Bridges" on my homepage at https://proycon.anaproy.nl/post/colibri/, feel free to ask difficult questions in preparation for the upcoming defence!

Я сегодня узнавал казахский певец "Димаш Кудайберген". Весь день я слушал его ангельский голос! Могу рекомендовать! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33buLNH0yrQ

Today I discovered there is a G5 paper format used for dissertations in the Netherlands which is way smaller than A4. Result: A whole day of fun with resizing table and figure placement in LaTeX ...

Doing some final writing on my (accepted!) PhD dissertation!

To help me learn Chinese, I’ve compiled a list of characters I wish to study, ordered them based on similarity, and wrote some software to render it in a nice grid: https://proycon.anaproy.nl/post/hanzigrid/