Conference on E-mail and Anti-Spam

ACADEMICS Enlist in Spam Battle
eWeek - USA
... On Friday, the inaugural Conference on E-mail and Anti-Spam opened here at Microsoft Corp's campus with a decidedly different approach to fighting unwanted e-mail. Rather than touting products, speakers vetted research from universities and industry laboratories. Their approaches moved far beyond the Bayesian filtering of yesteryear to the use of sequencing techniques from bioinformatics, cryptography and natural language processing to tackle spam. ...

Less Lost in Translation

Microsoft taking a novel approach to MT: according to this article in Technology Review:
... A tool introduced recently in China by Microsoft helps writers who are not native in English to write better English. Called the English Writing Wizard, it is the first product that addresses the difficult task of giving suggestions to someone who has little or no ability to distinguish between good and bad advice. Although the wizard can help with translation, it is not, strictly speaking, a machine translation tool. It is more akin to the grammar checkers familiar to users of common word-processing programs-but enhanced to work with people not native in English. A writer uncertain about how to phrase an idea in English can type it directly in Chinese and get a high-quality translation. ...

[more at Technology Review]

MICROSOFT Announces SQL Server 2005 Support for AMD Extended

MICROSOFT Announces SQL Server 2005 Support for AMD Extended ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... Data mining enhancements to SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 include a new Neural Network algorithm, a Text Mining feature, query enhancements and Reporting Services ...

BATTLEFIELD Tech for Aid Workers

BATTLEFIELD Tech for Aid Workers
Wired News - USA
... E-TAP was designed and built by BBN Technologies, with the real-time machine translation software developed by Language Weaver. ...

News in Linguistics

STUDENTS turning to sign language
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) - San Jose,CA,USA
... than 145 colleges - including those in the University of California - according to a list compiled by Sherman Wilcox, chair of the linguistics department at ...

EXPERTS appeal for popularizing Esperanto, protecting language ...
Xinhua - China
... Su Jinzhi, professor with the Institute of Applied Linguistics of the State Language Work Committee, said there are two ways to solve language inequality: one ...

'VALUES' is a slope politicians slip and slide around on
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Geoffrey Nunberg is a linguistics professor at Stanford University and the author of "Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Controversial Times ...

FROM Homeless Shelter To Ivy League Dorm
Hartford Courant (subscription) - Hartford,CT,USA
... and acted in the freshman play, "Jesus Hopped the A Train." Daniels took a wide range of courses, including intermediate French, linguistics, and music theory. ...

FRENCH author pens 233-page novel without any action words, draws ...
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... The very notion -— in the words of linguistics professor Geoffrey Pullum, on a Web site about language -— "nuts, bonkers, round the bend.". ...

MARINES Seek Retirees For AD
Military.com - USA
Retirees with experience in the intelligence, communications, public affairs, civil affairs, linguistics, logistics and administration fields are among the ...

'¡CHISTES!' Offers Insight Into Hispanic Culture
Albuquerque Journal (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... Southwest. A bonus for those interested in linguistics is a glossary comparing the region's Spanish to "standard" Spanish. Garcia ...

Machine Translation at Work

HUMANITARIAN effort yields brilliant technology, teamwork
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) - San Jose,CA,USA
... audience. This blending of human and machine translation capabilities makes the best use of both. The machines get us part of the way. ...