Monday, December 18, 2006

Some Topical Thoughts and Observations

* So, apparently, they located a Jamail (rather than Jamil) Hussein. Search on Arabic names transliterated to English is difficult. Of use in such problems are such approaches as described in this paper from the last HLT-NAACL Conference: "Cross Linguistic Name Matching in English and Arabic: A “One to Many Mapping” Extension of the Levenshtein Edit Distance Algorithm."

* Gold Chanukkah gelt is milk chocolate; Silver is dark chocolate.

* No, according to no midrash that I know was Yosef's special coat emblazoned with "Yechi haMelech."

* While I'm at it, here is a link to MOChassid, about an adoption opportunity.

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