Is your all-important essay being graded by a human, or a computer?
Automated essay scoring is now a reality, but not everyone likes the idea of an unthinking robot evaluating their essays. How do these programs work? And can you …
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Downton Abbey has enchanted millions of television viewers with the goings-on of the fictional Crawley family of the 1910s and 20s.
But some of the language they use is decidedly post-post-Edwardian, and language fans are having fun turning up words …
There’s a new way to learn a language on the Internet for free.
It’s called Duolingo. You learn by translating sentences. And as you learn, you and millions of other users will participate in translating documents on the web. It’s …
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 …
Linguists have always been interested in reconstructing languages from long ago.
By looking at how languages are now, we can work backwards to see how they must have been in the past. But now computer scientists are creating a kind …
In a world of changing values, one set of values has never changed: the point values on Scrabble tiles.
Now word nerd Joshua Lewis has an idea that has some gamers reaching for pitchforks. He suggests changing the scoring values …
Many of us turn to Wikipedia when learning about something new.
And most major languages have their own Wikipedia. But wikis also come in a few unexpected flavours, including Latin, Old English, and even a few constructed languages.
Linguist Daniel …
What’s in the Copiale Cipher?
Until recently, no one knew. It’s an 18th century document written by a German secret society, and it contains a mixture of ordinary letters and strange symbols. Now, computational linguists have used modern techniques to …
You’ve seen the Apple Geniuses.
They’re floating around in the Apple Store, helping customers, fixing problems, and making sales. Now it seems that a copy of Apple’s Genius guide has been leaked, with instructions on the language that Geniuses should …
Computers are terrible at learning language. Would they be any better if they learned it like humans have to?
A team of computer scientists has built a ‘robot baby’ that is interacting with people and learning to speak. Ground-breaking, or …
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