Tag: linguistics
Video-Fix: Language Pet Peeves
pet peeve (noun): a frequent subject of complaint1
If you’re a language enthusiast on the internet, you have probably heard about Erik Singer....
The origins of the English language
"Where did English come from? When we talk about English, we often think of it as a single language. But what do the dialects...
Self-Similarity in Texts: Fabulous Contributions to Computational Narratology
After some time spent to introduce theses of other fellow graduates and researchers, the moment is finally arrived for me to humbly...
Video Fix: Noam Chomsky on Language’s Great Mysteries
Like every field of science, linguistics, too has its conundrums.
Big Think has asked Noam Chomsky, whose contributions to the field have earned him the...
IATE Term of the Week: Isolationism
Isolationism
Isolationism as a general perspective is when countries are seeking to protect themselves and further their own advancement by not getting into foreign entanglements....
Interview with Linguist Sylvie Freyermuth
Sylvie Freyermuth a commencé par le journalisme (presse écrite et audio-visuelle) au Républicain Lorrain et à RTL TV et Radio (1977 à 1979). Elle...
Terminology in the Brain of the Machine
Ensuring Consistency and Quality of Neural Machine Translation
The European Institutions count some 5000 translators spread over 10 Institutions and translating thousands of pages into...
Top 5 Articles of the Month – April 2019
Dear terminologists! Every month we offer you a selection of our most clicked articles and blog posts. This month we are recommending these five...
Rich Points
Rich points are a common phenomenon in multilingual and multicultural environment. They are “those surprises, those departures from an outsider’s expectations that signal a...
Video Fix: Computational Creativity, Part 3 – Chatbots
Finally, we have arrived at the last stop of our excursion in the field of artificial intelligence applied to linguistics.
In the first episode we...