-
Internet Language Research
The Economist (19-06-2014) IF YOU’VE been on Facebook recently, and you’re the kind of person who reads this column, there’s a good chance you’ve seen one of two viral language tests going round. Like many things on Facebook, they’re a fun diversion. Unlike many things on Facebook, they’re helping serious researchers learn about language and […]
-
If something’s famous, you don’t need to tell people
If something’s famous, you don’t need to tell people; if you need to tell people something’s famous, it isn’t I am, famously, trying to discourage people from using this meaningless, annoying and downright misleading cliche
-
The future of Language (The Economist Jun 11th 2014)
The future of language Johnson: English against the machine Jun 11th 2014, 15:38 by R.L.G. | DUBLIN LAST week’s column looked at how machine translation (MT) has—and has not—improved. Free services like Bing and Google Translate can give quick-and-dirty, mostly-correct translations for tourists and the curious most of the time. For professional uses, machine-translated material must be […]
-
Rise of the machine translators (The Economist, Jun 4th 2014)
THOSE passingly familiar with machine translation (MT) may well have reacted in the following ways at some point. “Great!” would be one such, on plugging something into the best-known public and free version, Google Translate, and watching the translation appear milliseconds later. “Wait a second…” might be the next, from those who know both languages. […]
