Google is known for encouraging their employees’ creativity to run wild. A new site called “Translation Telephone” is a good example.According to the Programmable Web blog, a Google employee, Pamela White, has created an online version of the pop…
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In the first of a series about fascinating websites for language lovers, we will take a look at the site WordnikBeyond ongoing talk of machine translation, we mustn’t forget that the Internet also boasts a fountain of fun sites for word lovers. …
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Despite its articles available in many languages, Wikipedia remains Anglo-centric. A Microsoft research team in India is working to change that.Given that high-tech savvy and multilingual communication meet in the sub-continent, it is not surprising th…
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Despite its articles available in many languages, Wikipedia remains Anglo-centric. A Microsoft research team in India is working to change that.Given that high-tech savvy and multilingual communication meet in the sub-continent, it is not surprising th…
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An award-winning author argues that Twitter facilitates cross-cultural communication more than other social networks.Everybody knows that the Internet has made cross-cultural communication easier. Social networking platforms have played a key role in a…
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An award-winning author argues that Twitter facilitates cross-cultural communication more than other social networks.Everybody knows that the Internet has made cross-cultural communication easier. Social networking platforms have played a key role in a…
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Google Translate’s experiments with machine translation of poetry are yielding some intriguing results.In a post published last week on the Google Research blog, software engineer Dmitriy Genzel explains how Google is experimenting with poetry and st…
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Last week, Google added automatic translation of Latin to its translation platform. What’s in it for them? It truly warms the heart to think that Latin students will now have equal access to machine translation along with their Spanish-studying coun…
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Last week, Google added automatic translation of Latin to its translation platform. What’s in it for them? It truly warms the heart to think that Latin students will now have equal access to machine translation along with their Spanish-studying coun…
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