Episode 130: Ariel Gutman

🕑 1 hour 31 minutes

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.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Attributive constructions in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic, Ariel Gutman, 2018
• Google.org fellowship announcement, April 2022
• Demo of a Scribunto-based templatic NLG system (video)
  • Rendering of curated Abstract Content
  • Source data for rendering
• "Ariel's goodbye letter", December 2022
• Abstract Wikipedia/Google.org Fellows evaluation, December 2022
• Abstract Wikipedia/Google.org Fellows evaluation - Answer, December 2022
• Grammatical Framework
• Functional programming Wikipedia article
• "One Ring, or a thousand flowers?" - essay by Denny Vrandečić, November 2022