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Curriculum Vitae

I do freelance work in web development using Open Source tools and technologies. Here you can find my most recent CV in PDF format.

I ♥ Chinese Books

Since I started learning Chinese I've collected quite a collection of books on the subject. These include textbooks, dictionaries, books on grammar, calligraphy, culture, history and a couple of novels (although it's still rather challenging to read those). Some I bought on-line, but a lot of them I bought in Taiwan and China where books are dead cheap. Here are two of my favorites.

Wordpress Skeleton

You're probably looking for the Wordpress skeleton theme. It's still here : skeleton.zip.

This theme is old, from 2007 I believe. It might even no longer work with the current Wordpress version. I recommend you find another Wordpress starter theme.

Blogroll

Friends

  • Merkador
    Maarten gets creative with Google Earth
  • lifeCycle
    Toon goes down under by bike
  • Itchy Feet
    Isabella discovers the wonders of kimchi
  • Florisla
    Floris observations and witticisms
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Computational Linguistics

Where the fields of Computer Science and Linguistics meet.

Useful subjects:
• natural language processing
• artificial intelligence
• statistics
• machine translation
• text mining

From linguistics:
• phonology
• morphology
• semantics
• syntax

Also called
• Natural Language Technology
• Human Language Technology (companies)

Networks
• North America
∘ Linguistics society of America www.lsdadc.org
∘ North American Association of Computational Linguistics www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/naacl
• International

Code

Small code snippets can be found on my Snipplr account.

I also wrote a Ruby library for handling various phonetic representations of Mandarin Chinese, it is called Pinyin.

I have a handful of projects sitting on my harddrive or in Subversion in various states of completion. These might show up here one day or another.

Ting - Pinyin library for Ruby

Ting can convert between various systems for phonetically writing Mandarin Chinese. It can also handle various representation of tones, so it can be used to convert pinyin with numbers to pinyin with tones.

Hanyu Pinyin, Bopomofo, Wade-Giles, Tongyong Pinyin and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are supported.

For code examples visit the GitHub page.

Gems are hosted at GemCutter, so a simple "gem install ting" should do the trick.

Introduction

This is the personal site of Arne Brasseur. Here you will find my personal blog (in Dutch, my mother tongue), and various pages about the many things that interest me.

I'm very fond of languages. I grew up in a country with three official languages (Belgium), became fluent in English at a young age, and started studying Mandarin Chinese while at University.

I appreciate both the analytical and the holistic side of human nature, and as such am equally fond of computer science as of Taoist meditation.

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The last post

I have decided to no longer continue to blog in English on this site. I will still be blogging in Dutch.

It's been increasingly difficult for me to maintain a certain continuity here. It's been a great experiment, and a lot of fun, but I feel it's time to let this one go.

I'm working on a new site with a much more narrow focus, something this site dearly lacks. It might still be a while before it sees the light of day, so I'm not revealing too much about it yet.

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