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• Most Influential NLP Papers   1/23/2006

  This seems to be dominated by parsing and techology/machine learning papers, with a smattering of MT thrown in for good measure.

• Smoking 'accounts for health gap'   Friday, 14 July 2006

  In England, Wales, the US, Canada and Poland, men of lower social class, income or education have a two-fold increased risk of dying earlier.

Words
Generation gap
oppugn \uh-PYOON\ -verb- to call in question
lop·sid·ed (lŏp'sī'dĭd)  -adj.- Heavier, larger, or higher on one side than on the other.
vol·u·ble (vŏl'yə-bəl)  -adj.- Marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent.
men·dac·i·ty (mĕn-dăs'ĭ-tē)  -n.- The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness.
coo (kū)  -v.intr.- To talk fondly or amorously in murmurs

Comics

•   - What about a vacation ?
    - You get two weeks.
    - That's not bad.
    - But you have to take 6 horses with you.
• P  - I have a stupid question.
  R  - There is no such thing as a stupid question... only stupid people, asking questions.
  P  - Is that me ?
  R  - Don't be stupid.
• S  - I wouldn't marry you unless you were the last girl on Earth!
  L  - Did you say "if" or "unless" ?
  S  - I admit I said, "unless"...
  L  - Hope!