Centripetal Notion// archive

Cool! Check out Google’s new English-Arabic (and vice-versa) translator, which uses statistical analysis of billions of words of text and previous human translations. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s evaluation of its accuracy looks pretty good.

Monday 1 May, 2006 at 2:16 am
Internet + Technology + World
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… translated “Our Anthem”, is a Spanish version of the US national anthem getting a lot of attention (and air-time) in light of the recent movement in immigration reform, featuring Wycleff Jean and several prominent Spanish artists.

Monday 1 May, 2006 at 1:40 am
Music + Nation + Performance + Politics
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