The ethics of grammar checkers?
Sandeep Krishnamurthy, associate professor of marketing and e-commerce at the University of Washington, has written a withering critique of the Word grammar checker as...
Program writing on the wall?
For most of the past 4 millennia, writing (inscribing linguistic and related signs on a visible, semi-durable surface) has been an elite skill. Mass...
Derestricting web corpus building
Language scientists and developers need corpora, but licensing them (no, not the linguists) can be costly. Either they are too expensive, or there are...
Wiki search engine
If you use Wikis, check out Wikiwax, a handy new index that uses the same sort of “predictive typing” tool as Google to suggest...
a-lettristic
Thanks to Language Hat for this piece of alphabetic fun by Simon Whitechapel. It consists of a set of rotating glyphs as stand-ins for...
20,000 words under the C:
It’s Jules Verne year, the centenary of his death. Blogos has mixed feeings about celebrating the demise of this garrulous if entertaining writer.
The world...
Language: the 3D computer game
For all the sites for language games , constructed languages , artificial languages, Klingon, palindrome collectors, machine translation jokery, slang rangers and the like...
Report on the European Language Tech Industry
Under government auspices, a new report has been published by French information and language industry bodies on “Automatic Language Processing in the Information Industryâ€,...
Updating Kanji
Useful item from Burritt Sabin on a recent Japanese Language Subcommittee report on kanji, calling for an overhaul of the joyo kanji (the official...