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An evaluation of automatic romanisation of Japanese text with Google Translate(pinyin.info)
1 points by quant18 17y ago|1 comments
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by quant18 17y ago
Farsi is Indo-European. Morphologically it's fairly simple (e.g. you have different verb forms for person and number, but not for gender) --- except that some people like to apply Arabic morphology to Arabic loanwords in certain cases (anal
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by quant18 17y ago
So how much did it cost U. N. A. Cycle Traders to be listed as a "landmark"? It brings up a mildly interesting machine vision problem: using the Street View data to confirm that the "landmark" business has a highly visible sign which is vis
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by quant18 17y ago
The Google NLP team congratulate themselves so hard for handling studied-to-death Japanese text processing problems like Shift-JIS vs Unicode, half-width vs. full width kana, word boundary detection, and multiple readings for kanji? I wonde
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by quant18 17y ago
As usual, newspapers can't be bothered to give us links or original title like any half-decent blogger would ... wouldn't want to expose themselves to independent fact-checking ... Partner Wealth Predicts Self-Reported Orgasm Frequency htt
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by quant18 17y ago
Interestingly enough, they (and helium.com, who have a vaguely similar business model) were soft-banned from Wikipedia back in August [1] --- IPs and new named accounts can't add links to them. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title
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by quant18 17y ago
In the meantime, perhaps we should try and think of a name for the new economic system. No half-Greek half-French monstrosities like "bankocracy". Sounds awful. Trapezocracy please. (Warning: Google Books tells me I'm the first person in
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by quant18 17y ago
This smells suspicious to me. Cash vs. physical settlement is part of the contract specification ... it's not a flag on an order you send to the exchange. For anyone who wants to do some detective work and track down whether this really hap
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by quant18 17y ago
This is one reason I'm afraid of improvements in automatic music transcription systems. Once it becomes easy to search any voice of any piece of music ever recorded, lawyers will be trawling music search engines day and night looking for co
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by quant18 17y ago
I don't think translating the language itself makes that much of a difference. What most beginning hackers really need is the ability to search and read forum posts and code from a bunch of advanced hackers who already went through the prob
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by quant18 17y ago
One sorta starting point is the list of average TOEFL scores by native language of test-takers, which should tell you who finds English easy and who finds it hard. Page 9 in the link [1]. Of course, they say "use of average TOEFL scores to
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by quant18 17y ago
The real hard part of Arabic is the morphology. It's "irregular", both in the human sense that there's all sorts of horrible exceptions to ridiculous numbers of rules, and in the compsci sense that you cannot recognise/produce the inflected
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by quant18 17y ago
Huh, I was gonna say "They thought of this, you can probably only use one gift card at a time, which is why they sell you two $25s instead of one $50". But it turns out that you can use two gift cards at check out time.
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by quant18 17y ago
Well, Kristof couldn't be bothered to give us a screenshot either this time nor back in June when he first brought up the issue: http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/microsoft-and-ch... Either MS changed it since then, or Kristof i
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by quant18 17y ago
Accra (Ghana) is cheap, coastal, and Anglophone. When I was there four years ago the broadband was quite spotty, though I expect things have gotten better since then. But the flight over won't be cheap. You might try Panama or Costa Rica. I
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by quant18 17y ago
I fail to see the slippery slope. The whole point of teaching your kid a language, or a set of manners, or religious rituals, or whatever, is to enable him to participate in a community. Raising your child into a fangroup organised around a
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by quant18 17y ago
Yeah in fact as it turns out his kid acquired English fine in school and forgot how to speak Klingon, just like most immigrant kids whose parents speak to them in a language that they don't use anywhere else in their lives. What I really fi
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by quant18 17y ago
link needs an "l" on the end: http://www.optimizeandprophesize.com/jonathan_mendezs_blog/2...
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by quant18 17y ago
The nicest thing I can say is that it may inspire some neat scifi stories. The author has some very odd theories about junk DNA ... Anyway for those who'd like more background on Mr. Vendramini: http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/origi
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by quant18 17y ago
It's hard to give an answer without knowing more about your input data and what you intend to do with the output. On general principle, "math plus syntax" seems like a highly error-prone approach, especially if you need to process anything
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by quant18 17y ago
Don't get your hopes up. The article states: "according to Samsung senior vice president Don Joo Lee" Or you can go to http://www.bada.com/ which says "copyright Samsung" at the bottom. And according to whois, registered by Samsung at the
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by quant18 17y ago
Oh no, don't get me wrong --- I agree: Chinese characters are hard. People can't read them. An alphabet would be much easier. On the other hand, Mair seems to think that slaughtering your native lexicon and replacing it with a bunch of Engl
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by quant18 17y ago
Basically Victor Mair's papers always come down to "I don't like Chinese characters", and "I don't like calques". I'm not so fond of characters either, but I also think calques are a damn sight better than loanwords --- and as Mair notes, a
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by quant18 17y ago
Had a non-tech blog. I mostly translated and commented on travel writing and news articles on obscure subjects. Mainly it was for me to organise/summarise my knowledge on various topics. But it got too time consuming to write whole posts at
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by quant18 17y ago
"possibly discouraging repeat visits." --- you nailed it on the head yourself, that seems to outweigh any minor benefit from having one less field to fill out at registration time. Even worse, if the password e-mail gets spam-filtered or ev
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by quant18 17y ago
But do the goats have union cards? No seriously, that was a problem when they did this in California: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&#3... http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Wc0PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c...
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Better link: http://scale.cc/2009/10/30/ask-startups-is-employee-retentio...
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by quant18 17y ago
I've always thought that a world where English was every country's sole official language would be better for preserving small minority languages. Typically, if you're a minority Kneebonian in Elbonia, you have a "triple burden": 1. You w
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by quant18 17y ago
IE8+Vista is still the only combination which can display traditional Mongolian script web pages properly. (Granted this is rather more obscure than Korean, but it's still useful to about 5 million people + every Qing dynasty historian.) Al
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Maybe someone in the Tianjin government reads Paul Graham? =) http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html

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