Episode 130: Ariel Gutman

<p><img style="float: right; padding: 5px;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/115190/Ariel-Gutman-BTB.png" alt="Ariel Gutman" width="140" height="140" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: #34495e;">🕑 1 hour 31 minutes</span></p> <p>Ariel Gutman is a senior software engineer at Google, as well as a linguist. From May to October 2022, he was one of a group of Fellows, supported by Google.org, who assisted in the design and development of Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Several months after that, he co-authored an "evaluation" that was somewhat critical of the project.</p> <p>Links for some of the topics discussed:</p> <ul> <li><em><a href= "https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/123">Attributive constructions in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic</a></em>, Ariel Gutman, 2018</li> <li><a href="Google.org%20Fellowship">Google.org fellowship announcement</a>, April 2022</li> <li><a href= "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Demo_of_a_Scribunto-based_templatic_NLG_system.webm"> Demo of a Scribunto-based templatic NLG system</a> (video) <ul> <li><a href= "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AGutman-WMF/Template_Examples#Rendering_of_curated_Abstract_Content"> Rendering of curated Abstract Content</a></li> <li><a href= "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:Sandbox/AbstractWikipedia/AbstractContent"> Source data for rendering</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href= "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2022-12-19#Ariel%E2%80%99s_goodbye_letter"> "Ariel's goodbye letter"</a>, December 2022</li> <li><a href= "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Google.org_Fellows_evaluation"> Abstract Wikipedia/Google.org Fellows evaluation</a>, December 2022</li> <li><a href= "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Google.org_Fellows_evaluation_-_Answer"> Abstract Wikipedia/Google.org Fellows evaluation - Answer</a>, December 2022</li> <li><a href="https://www.grammaticalframework.org/">Grammatical Framework</a></li> <li><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_progra