National 'Science' Foundation?
When I first heard about this, I thought it was a joke. I wish. The National Science Foundation funding a study in erotic nouns? The title of the 'scientific' paper in question:
From the paper's abstract:
You get the idea, there are other items that are not appropriate for a family blog.
Here is the NSF grant information:
This has nothing to do with basic science (the charter of NSF) and it is especially galling in an era of huge federal budget deficits.
Recently, an NSF-funded scientist objected to me using the phrase "beauty contest" to describe NSF's grant process. When you see this sort of thing being funded (and there are many other examples), I'd say the description is becoming literally true, in addition to the figurative sense in which I originally meant it.
That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identiļ¬cation
From the paper's abstract:
Humor identiļ¬cation is a hard natural lan-
guage understanding problem. We identify
a subproblem — the “that’s what she said”
problem — with two distinguishing character-
istics: (1) use of nouns that are euphemisms
for sexually explicit nouns and (2) structure
common in the erotic domain.
You get the idea, there are other items that are not appropriate for a family blog.
Here is the NSF grant information:
Thismaterial isbasedupon worksupported
by the National Science Foundation Graduate Re-
search Fellowship under Grant #DGE-0718124 and
under Grant #0937060
This has nothing to do with basic science (the charter of NSF) and it is especially galling in an era of huge federal budget deficits.
Recently, an NSF-funded scientist objected to me using the phrase "beauty contest" to describe NSF's grant process. When you see this sort of thing being funded (and there are many other examples), I'd say the description is becoming literally true, in addition to the figurative sense in which I originally meant it.
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