Month: September 2011
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If you can’t even get your Japanese right how are you expected to get your English correct
My kids watch this show on NHK called Cooking Idol Ai My Mine. Great show about a girl who is a real live cooking show host. Shows like these truly give kids imagination and creativity. But I was really disappointed in the looseness of their script writing in this dialogue shown the other day: Child:…
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Understanding translation through corpus
Do we really need to know grammar to understand language? What if we can have billions and billions of words of data to work with and put it through a computer? Well, that is pretty much what corpus linguistics is. Here is a nice article about how Google Translate works. It may not be full…
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