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182: Machine Translation

4 November 2014 / / Comments Off on 182: Machine Translation

Penmanship is becoming a lost art.

In our age of keyboards and smartphones, fewer and fewer of us use that distinctive cursive script, and schools are even letting go of teaching running writing. Will cursive die out, and will computers …

157: Digital Extinction

1 April 2014 / / 2 Comments

Will the Internet save minority languages, or kill them?

Many small languages lack an online presence, as only a handful of languages dominate the Web. On the other hand, we’ve never had so many tools to include other languages in …

137: Shakespeare’s Words

1 October 2013 / / Comments Off on 137: Shakespeare’s Words

Everyone knows that William Shakespeare invented hundreds — or perhaps thousands — of words, including swagger, zany, and rant.

Except maybe he didn’t. As more and more books become easier to search, researchers are whittling away at …

111: All the Words in the World (featuring Robert Munro)

19 March 2013 / / Comments Off on 111: All the Words in the World (featuring Robert Munro)

There’s a lot of language out there on the Internet.

But how does the volume of language on Twitter, web pages, and the rest of the Internet compare with the amount of face-to-face conversation?

Computational linguist Robert Munro has taken …

74: Search Insights

12 June 2012 / / Comments Off on 74: Search Insights

Are there secrets in your search history?

We sometimes submit search queries that we wouldn’t admit to friends. And by looking at our searches, researchers can unearth things we’d rather keep hidden, including covert racism and sexual predilections.

Linguist Daniel …

38: Austalk (featuring Celeste Rodriguez Louro)

6 September 2011 / / Comments Off on 38: Austalk (featuring Celeste Rodriguez Louro)

Linguists and researchers are working on AusTalk — a database of Australian English.

With a thousand speakers, it will be the largest repository of English outside the UK. But what’s it for? What are we expecting to find? And how …

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