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The Rise of the Zuckerverb: The New Language of Facebook
This is what happens when language is optimized for social data-mining rather than natural communication… More »
Ben Zimmer is the former On Language columnist for the New York Times Magazine and the executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com.
This is what happens when language is optimized for social data-mining rather than natural communication… More »
Say goodbye to the dictionary definition. Courts, long dependent on the vagaries of language, have new quantitative tools they can use to precisely pin down how words are used.… More »
Is Watson, despite its limitations, a precursor to a HAL-esque machine that can mimic natural language, if not reproduce it?… More »
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