{"id":1822,"date":"2023-07-16T14:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T18:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2023-07-16T14:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T18:38:53","slug":"myths-writing-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/myths-writing-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Myths about writing systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/rws.xoba.com\/\">Richard Sproat<\/a>, I just published a short position paper on &#8220;myths about writing systems&#8221; in NLP to appear in the proceedings for <a href=\"https:\/\/cawl.wellformedness.com\/\">CAWL, the ACL Workshop on Computation and Writing Systems<\/a>. I think it will be most of all useful to reviewers and editors who need a resource to combat nonsense like <em>Persian is a right-to-left language<\/em> and want to suggest a correction. Take a look <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2023.cawl-1.1\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with Richard Sproat, I just published a short position paper on &#8220;myths about writing systems&#8221; in NLP to appear in the proceedings for CAWL, the ACL Workshop on Computation and Writing Systems. I think it will be most of all useful to reviewers and editors who need a resource to combat nonsense like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/myths-writing-systems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Myths about writing systems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-language","category-nlp","category-sociolinguistics","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}