May 19, 2005

Conversational Computers

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Great article in the June Scientific American about efforts at IBM to create normal-sounding synthetic speech. They call it "concaten...
May 16, 2005

WordCount of the British National Corpus

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Another fun word game, this time from wordcount.org , which tells you how popular a word is according to the British National Corpus. There ...
May 15, 2005

Library of Congress @ Audible

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Interesting lectures on the future of technology from the Library of Congress are available for free at Audible.com . Speakers include Lawr...
May 14, 2005

Gazzaniga profiled in the NYTimes

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Nice profile of Michael Gazzaniga, one of the grandfathers of cognitive neuroscience, in the May 10, 2005 New York Times . Hampshire owns ma...
May 11, 2005

Trial Databases at Hampshire

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'Tis the season for trials! - LLBA ( Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts ), a swell database for linguistics research. Coverage...

More New Books!

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Applied linguistics as social science ; by Alison Sealey and Bob Carter. publisher: Continuum, 2004. for more info . Bilingual childre...
May 09, 2005

Google Relevance Might Improve

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New Scientist reports in its May 1, 2005 issue that Google "has plans that will dramatically improve" ranking in news searches. ...
May 04, 2005

Language Log Blog

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The linguists among you might enjoy this Language Log blog. Covers such interesting and lexically significant topics as the semantics of ...
May 02, 2005

Linguistics & Reference Questions

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Interesting article in the May 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology on linguistics ...
April 30, 2005

Animal Science-related

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Here's a site for animal lovers of all domestic stripes: VeterinaryPartner.com . They say that the site provides "reliable, up-t...