Beyond mobile keyboards
Handwriting or scribbling was the only way to make a personal textual record before the typewriter started imitating standardized print records in the late...
Great dictator
If you’ve never had a chance to try out text input via speech recognition, Jon Udell has captured his own attempts at using the...
Of rats and English-speaking men?
This is an airy story. The New Scientist recently reported the following:
An array of rat brain cells has successfully flown a virtual F-22 fighter...
Spleak speaking
If you use MSN Messenger and like playing English language games with chatterbots, try the beta version of Spleak, a female avatar produced by...
Language police strike again
UK schools are to be given official guidance (a 60 page booklet called Introducing the Grammar of Talk) on how to teach pupils...
It’s all just metadata
A think piece on why all data is becoming metadata, from DavidWeinburger
There used to be a difference between data and metadata. Data was the...
Localizing web domain names
For internationalization engineers, an interesting paper by John C. Klensin, former Vice President of Internet Architecture at AT&T, a Distinguished Engineering Fellow at MCI...
You make me feel like a natural language
The expression natural language seems to be going mainstream. It is shifting from a more technical application (natural L versus programming L) in the...
Cross-lingual search report
Multilingual information retrieval R&D in Europe has been the focus of a digital libraries initiative called Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for some years now....