Category Archives: Language Technology

Of spam art and blog novels

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Kevin

Computer artist Alex Dragulescu uses information visualization to turn the text (and other information) of spam E-mails into growing-plant art and the text of blogs into graphical novels. For the latter, he’s also using computational linguistics to analyze the blog … Continue reading →

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Multilingual texting (for disasters)

Posted on July 14, 2006 by Kevin

Indian company Geneva Software Technologies has created software that can translate text from English into seventy-one other languages in various written character sets and send a translation to any cellular phone or mobile device in the world, no matter what … Continue reading →

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The Iraqcomm

Posted on July 11, 2006 by Kevin

Iraqcomm, developed by California’s Stanford Research Institute, is two-way translation software to help American soldiers/medics in Iraq communicate with Iraqis on some topics without human translators. Accompanying podcast with translation sample I hope it helps. On the news I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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Mobile words

Posted on July 8, 2006 by Kevin

You can now get free audio phrase books for your iPod from Coolgorilla (so far German, French, and Greek, with Spanish coming soon). I expect to see tourists in foreign marketplaces frantically pushing buttons on tiny devices the way they … Continue reading →

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