Computational linguistics

Searching for Words: Your Ngram Questions

Recently, Kurt Andersen talked with the research scientists who partnered with Google to develop the Ngram Viewer. The Ngram Viewer sifts through millions of digitized books and documents, looking for patterns in word usage across centuries. Kurt asked for listeners’ suggestions for Ngram queries, and we got dozens of interesting results. Juan Martinez wanted to […]

David Brooks: What Our Words Tell Us

Big Data and Culturomics

Podcast: Africa’s Translation Gap

The World in Words