Office Natural Language Team Blog
We are currently running a survey on how users edit and review content and how they use proofing...
Date: 03/08/2010
At the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans on 13 July 2009, we announced the launch of the...
Date: 07/17/2009
On Monday this week, Microsoft launched the Office 2010 Technical Preview. Thousands of customers...
Date: 07/16/2009
The Microsoft Translator from the Microsoft Research (MSR) is now available for download in the...
Date: 06/08/2009
In this post, I would like to share with you the reasons why I love the French word chef-d’œuvre...
Date: 03/12/2009
The post I wrote a few months ago about how users can remove a word from the main dictionary of...
Date: 03/02/2009
Microsoft hat einen Hotfix für die deutsche Silbentrennung in Office 2007 veröffentlicht. Dieser...
Date: 01/22/2009
A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced an initiative targeting the Hispanic community, with special...
Date: 01/14/2009
A few days ago, I discovered an analysis of our Office 2007 contextual speller carried out by Prof....
Date: 01/08/2009
A French translator was asking an interesting question the other day on the Word community...
Date: 10/22/2008
The other day, I was discussing a number of suggestions to improve Office’s spell-checker. A...
Date: 09/11/2008
A few days ago, James wrote about the articles the Seattle Times published about our Natural...
Date: 09/04/2008
Last week our group was visited by reporters from the Seattle Times, who took some photographs and...
Date: 08/28/2008
For opening day this year, my beloved Chicago Cubs unveiled a statue of the immortal Ernie Banks. On...
Date: 04/03/2008
Thinking about a couple of recent Language Log posts about grammar checkers, passive sentences, and...
Date: 03/06/2008
A customer wrote to us recently with the observation that our English spellchecker doesn’t recognize...
Date: 02/15/2008
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac was released this week. Users who are interested in the French...
Date: 01/20/2008
I just read Building and Exploring Web Corpora, which includes the Proceedings of the 3rd Web as...
Date: 12/21/2007
During my vacation in December 2007, I had a chance to visit a friend of mine who works for the...
Date: 12/19/2007
Our colleagues from the Microsoft Research (MSR) group have started blogging about the statistical...
Date: 11/20/2007
There's a new blog out there from the team that's working on Enterprise Search for MOSS (Microsoft...
Date: 11/16/2007
For readers who are interested in the French spelling reform, two very recent articles published in...
Date: 11/10/2007
Laurie asked us via the Email/Contact link: I was always under the impression that the Contextual...
Date: 10/24/2007
James was talking about endangered languages the other day. I have just finished reading David...
Date: 10/16/2007
Kieran is a fellow linguist on the Windows International team, working closely with the team...
Date: 10/01/2007
Jonas Barklund is a veteran developer working on Windows Desktop Search. He’s got a great post with...
Date: 09/27/2007
This week marked the 25th birthday of the smiley :-). But are emoticons really only 25? Language Log...
Date: 09/21/2007
It turns out that here in Redmond we’re sitting in the middle of one of the global hotspots of...
Date: 09/21/2007
Mark Liberman has an interesting post on the Language Log on judging offensiveness across languages...
Date: 09/13/2007
Our Microsoft Research (MSR) colleagues have just released the beta version of a brand-new machine...
Date: 09/13/2007
I was recently invited to review a book on bilingual dictionaries for the July 2007 issue of the...
Date: 08/22/2007
Die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung bringt komplexe Bereiche mit sich in denen sich die Schreibweise...
Date: 08/15/2007
"Can Word Improve your writing?" The Word team hopes so. And so do we! Heck, that's some of our...
Date: 06/27/2007
If you are interested in getting output for other languages from a US English keyboard layout, here...
Date: 05/24/2007
My colleague Adam Rosenblatt alerted me to an interesting document was recently posted to the...
Date: 03/28/2007
Recently the Linguistic Society of America highlighted an NPR report on a dispute among Arkansans...
Date: 03/22/2007
Bilingual dictionaries have been accessible for quite some time in Microsoft Office and the range of...
Date: 02/23/2007
Thanks to Mike Calcagno for pointing this out.... See page 2 with the paragraph that starts with...
Date: 01/19/2007
Some lovely words about the contextual spellchecker from Walter Mossberg's review of Office 2007 in...
Date: 01/04/2007
Who says Office 2007 isn't hip? Your doc won't get flagged for any sort of "truthiness" in Word. --...
Date: 12/14/2006
Michael Kaplan has hundreds (maybe over a thousand) of posts on obscure details of...
Date: 12/11/2006
When you buy the English version of Office 2007, you also get the ability to install proofing tools...
Date: 11/27/2006
Here are some more details on the Microsoft Office Multi-Language Pack 2007.... (Note, this is in...
Date: 11/16/2006
It’s interesting to see how useful the new Contextual Speller feature in Office 2007 can be. If...
Date: 11/15/2006
A friend of mine, a university researcher, tells of a colleague whose students trusted the English...
Date: 11/13/2006
Bill Gates announced last month that Joshua Goodman would be his new technical assistant. Joshua...
Date: 11/13/2006
A user was asking us the other day whether there was going to be a Proofing Tools 2007 kit, as was...
Date: 11/01/2006
Jonathan & Margaret over on the Word blog have some nice words about the contextual...
Date: 10/31/2006
[Une version en français de ce blog est disponible ici:...
Date: 10/20/2006
I love CSS [Contextual Spelling]! I basically use spellcheckers to correct typing mistakes (I'm a...
Date: 10/19/2006