language
In Africa, rescuing the languages that Western tech ignores
World
December 27, 2021
In Africa, rescuing the languages that Western tech ignores
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves…
Language ‘speed dating’ attracts Jewish and Palestinian students in Jerusalem
Middle East
November 1, 2021
Language ‘speed dating’ attracts Jewish and Palestinian students in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, Nov 1 (Reuters) – A small group of Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem, a city of political, religious and…
Facebook researchers use maths for better translations
Technology
October 13, 2019
Facebook researchers use maths for better translations
Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is…
Translating Wikipedia pages into a local language in Ghana
World
April 4, 2019
Translating Wikipedia pages into a local language in Ghana
On a recent Saturday, more than 20 young Ghanaians gathered in a room in the capital Accra. They were there…
Mosul citizens fear losing Maslawi dialect
Middle East
January 28, 2019
Mosul citizens fear losing Maslawi dialect
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For centuries, residents of Mosul have spoken a unique form of Arabic enriched by the Iraqi…