jungle light speed

Archive for the ‘Linguistics’ Category

• About

  Jungle Light Speed is by Robert Munro and features articles about the interaction between language, technology and society in a rapidly connecting world.

  Online: www.robertmunro.com

  On Twitter:
  @WWRob

• Posts

  • Diversity Check-In for Figure Eight’s Technical Staff
  • World Cup Characters
  • The Languages of Black Panther
  • Haiti on the Rise
  • In the Shadow of Bradman
  • A Step in the Right Direction for NLP
  • I’ve joined CrowdFlower!
  • Analogue Natural Language Processing
  • How close was the U.S.A. election?
  • California unified in voting for diversity
  • Choosing a Career Path in Machine Learning to Maximize Impact
  • Thank you to all Idibon contributors
  • AAAS: Understanding Speakers of 7,000 Languages
  • Facebook’s “Reactions” is in the 10% most widely spoken languages, still outnumbered by the Amish
  • Idibon AI processes world-scale text data … on a single computer!
  • Off-road touring bike review
  • Recap: Africa Tech Summit and MEST
  • I built a bicycle!
  • The fourth generation of machine learning: Adaptive learning
  • Languages at ACL this year
  • Bias in Reporting Cricket?
  • The tech community’s response to Ebola
  • Positive News in Ebola Recovery from Sierra Leone
  • New investment for Idibon!
  • The silent victims of Ebola
  • Isaac Newton vs Millions of Japanese Teens
  • Sponsoring Travel Grants for Workshop NLP and HCI
  • Distributed Computing for Disaster Management
  • Let’s leave disaster anniversaries to the victims
  • Improving privacy with language technologies
  • Workshop on Social Impact Through Big Data & Crowdsourcing
  • The Top 10 NLP Conferences
  • Why you should not use Twitter in a disaster
  • The evolution of the expert
  • Tracking Epidemics with Natural Language Processing and Crowdsourcing
  • How the world is changing
  • NLP for all languages
  • Report: crowdsourcing hurricane damage assessments
  • New funding for Idibon
  • Website update for Idibon
  • Adventures in online education
  • Volunteerism vs Professionalism for remote humanitarian work
  • “Processing short-message communications in low-resource languages”
  • Crowdsourcing and the crisis-affected population
  • Doubly-named places
  • Take English, add awesome
  • Published!
  • Open datanarchy
  • Squanto
  • The Start of the Art
  • Alphabetical order
  • The Power of One Beard
  • Microtasking as a real-time relief work
  • The smallest signal
  • Culturomics
  • Fieldworking
  • Sudden onset translation
  • 5,000 languages
  • A double rainbow, what is this meme?
  • Evaluating crowdsourcing for humanitarian response
  • What languages are spoken by crowdsourced workers?
  • 5 new words
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