Arabic lessons
After reading Language Log’s discussion on George W. Bush’s pronounciation of the notorious Arabic place name Abu Ghraib, check out this Reuter’s report on...
Why stories about the European Commission getting lost in translation are a good thing
Courtesy of the Financial Times, here’s the latest from Brussels on EC language and authoring management issues. The recent round of EU enlargement...
Hot air?
BlueLithium is a very new provider of online advertising technology and services. It has just launched BlueTheory which (it claims):
reads a web page in...
European Union Inter-Agency Terminology Exchange
Margaret Marks has blogged progress on the project to build a “single central terminology database for all the institutions, agencies and other bodies of...
Search me
If anyone has managed to miss the ongoing search wars saga, here’s a few handy links. On the commercial front, Google is (at last)...
NLP Masters opportunity for non-Europeans
Jeff Allen has drawn attention to an International Masters in Natural Language Processing with grant, for students who have already received a BA degree...
Languages-on-the-web portal
Thanks to languagehat for news about a new mega portal called Languages on the Web. Vast array of links to what they call...
Only 300 years before intelligent searching
In a CNET.com interview, Google technology director Craig Silverstein was asked when he thought advanced artificially intelligent search (such as “search pets” or agents)...
History teaser
Further to my history blog of the other day, here’s a taster of the sort of topic threads that could be followed up in...