Words that count
Sorry I’ve been offline again for a long time. Promise to keep on track now I’m back from la France profonde.
Let’s start back with...
Europe’s Multilingual Companion
Most people these days know how to smile at the ‘five year’s away’ promises from the IT sector, especially in the language technology industry....
80,000 pages of EU law into Irish, anyone?
Eurolang reports that the Irish Government is to “initiate a process of discussions with the other EU Member States and the EU Commission with...
Bonn voyage
I’m blogging from Bonn, John Le Carre’s famous small town in Germany for a certain generation, where I’m attending a very dynamic second edition...
New report on Arabic digital language resources
While the U.S. Government is recruiting madly to translate and teach Arabic or develop Arabic language automation systems, an EC funded project – NEMLAR...
Pictographic writing
For something completely different, check out the only ‘living’ pictographic language (think Mayan or Egyptian hieroglyphs) in the world today used for ritual purposes...
Visualizing language
Visual Thesaurus is a fun, for-sale tool that represents synonymy (and antonymy) relations between English words as graph displays looking like Calder mobiles of...
Language learning technology
Second language learning – a huge market if we are to believe the rare figures found here, and there - has so far been...
Good article on searching
If you want a useful overview of information retrieval from the Memex to Google, read this Ramano Rao article courtesy of Gary Price. A...