Ernesto Wong García

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What are some tools for mining social media posts?

Hi, everyone. I need some recommendations on tools for quickly gathering social media posts, especially Twitter, so I don't have to manually go over the whole of social media tracking hashtags or...

02 July 2021 4,809 4 View

Is anyone aware of any work within the Parallel Architecture / Conceptual Semantics dealing with metaphor and, more generally, figurative meaning?

I want to know what treatment, if any, figurative meaning is given within Conceptual Semantics and the Parallel Architecture: what it is understood as, how it is formalized (if in any way), and...

09 June 2017 7,918 5 View

Is it common, in nature, for systems to be in more than one state at the same time? Also, how is it possible?

I'm mainly thinking about the human mind / brain. Mental states are so called because they are understood as states (roughly "ways of being") of a physical system, i.e. the brain. Now, we can be...

24 November 2016 268 3 View

What's the best way to deal with prescriptive or normative grammar when training linguists?

I'm interested in experiences you may have had on dealing with the prescriptive mindframe linguistics students bring into the classroom when they first begin their training, and which ways you...

14 September 2016 3,683 9 View