language technology
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Posted by Sharon Creese on August 16, 2010
How do you feel about ‘verbing’? It’s something we touched on in our news round-up recently, and no, it’s not rude – it’s the increasingly well-recognized practice of creating a verb out of a noun, like ‘google’, ‘tweet’, ‘text’, or ‘friend’. And it causes a lot of controversy.
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Many of the words spawned this way are [...]
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Posted by Adam Kilgarriff on June 24, 2010
Our next guest post comes from Adam Kilgarriff. Adam is a linguist, and a specialist in the area where linguistics, computers and dictionaries meet. He was at Brighton University until 2004 when he set up his own company, Lexical Computing Ltd. He lives in Brighton, and will be taking a lunchtime swim in the sea [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on April 15, 2010
Just a reminder to you all that the Double-click feature of our wonderful dictionary is available to you all to integrate with your blog and/or website, and free of charge too!
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You can see the Double-click in action here on the blog. Isn’t it great? If you’d like to add it to yours too, watch this [...]
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Posted by Sharon Creese on April 12, 2010
Have you noticed how, in the past 10 years, a whole bunch of completely unrelated words have become totally interchangeable, all thanks to predictive texting?
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Predictive texting is now a feature of pretty much every mobile phone on the market, and love it or hate it, we’re all exposed to it in one way or another. [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on April 20, 2009
The countdown for the annual Webby Awards, aka the Oscars for the Web, has started: there are ten more days left to cast your vote. (Voting stops at the end of April.) This year, one of the more interesting nominees, in the category of ‘Best typography’, is Wordle.
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Wordle has been created by Jonathan Feinberg, who [...]
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