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Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:00 PM

Japanese Word Breaking in Windows Desktop Search

Jonas Barklund is a veteran developer working on Windows Desktop Search. He’s got a great post with details on how Windows Search works in Japanese, using our Natural Language Group word breaker. Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/jonasbar/archive/2007/09/21/word-breaking-japanese-is-hard.aspx
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Friday, September 21, 2007 6:47 PM

Smiley is 25

This week marked the 25th birthday of the smiley :-). But are emoticons really only 25? Language Log has some history . -- James Lyle (Test Lead)
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Friday, September 21, 2007 6:13 PM

On Endangered Languages

It turns out that here in Redmond we’re sitting in the middle of one of the global hotspots of language endangerment, as identified by this NY Times article on the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. It is heartbreaking to realize that
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:05 PM

Some food for thought on offensiveness

Mark Liberman has an interesting post on the Language Log on judging offensiveness across languages and cultures. The context is a very recent incident where a French police union has asked for a court order to force the Petit Robert monolingual French
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:23 AM

Windows Live Translator: Microsoft’s new Machine Translation web service

Our Microsoft Research (MSR) colleagues have just released the beta version of a brand-new machine translation (MT) service which you can find on the Windows Live site at http://translator.live.com . This free web service allows you to translate a text
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