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Salon.com July 27, 2000 Margot Mifflin |
Who are you calling "Ms."? Why have women suddenly rejected the politically charged courtesy title?  |
Salon.com July 11, 2000 Virginia Vitzthum |
"The Language War" by Robin Tolmach Lakoff From hate speech laws to the battle over Native American sports team names, a linguist shows why we're so worked up about the power of words.  |
Salon.com January 22, 2000 Richard Louis Bruno |
It's not easy being a Dick Life's hard, but one name makes it harder.  |
Wired May 2000 Steve Silberman |
Hello, World Imagine a machine that speaks your language - and translates it for those who don't.  |
Wired May 2000 |
Communication Breakdown Trials of developing speech-recognition  |
Wired May 2000 Carl Zimmer |
Universal Translators A look at the hubs for machine translation R&D worldwide.  |
Wired May 2000 Paul Spinrad |
Say Anything Machine translation gets a lot of lip service, but building machines that communicate using human languages has proven tricky. Now decades of R&D are finally paying off.  |
Wired May 2000 |
Sites+Sounds A directory of translation tools online  |
Wired May 2000 Steve Silberman |
Talking to Strangers A renewed international effort is gearing up to design computers and software that smash language barriers and create a borderless global marketplace.  |
Wired May 2000 |
Machine Translation's Past and Future Computerized language translation, speech synthesis, etc. History and future projections.  |
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