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Do the languages of the world form a continuous chain? And isn’t it possible that language influences thought by the words we use?
Linguist Daniel Midgley tells all on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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A team from Stanford has made improvements on the ‘image description’ task.
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/
A gentle introduction
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/science/researchers-announce-breakthrough-in-content-recognition-software.html?_r=0
Facebook currently employs 100,000 people in the Philippines to detect and delete porn and beheadings.
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
There are discontinuities in the world language chain. See them here:
http://www.geocurrents.info/cultural-geography/linguistic-geography/world-maps-of-language-families/attachment/wikipedia-language-families-world-map
What is a Sprachbund?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprachbund
Gleaned from here:
https://linguistics.osu.edu/research/pubs/lang-files
Oxford’s word of the year: Vape
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/11/oxford-dictionaries-word-year-vape/
Watchwords: ‘Vaping’ is a word that’s likely to last
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/watchwords-vaping-is-a-word-thats-likely-to-last
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