Researchers are training computers to recognize sarcasm on Twitter Nathan Ingraham, @nateingraham Twitter contains multitudes. On any given day you’ll find earnest and passionate rumination, breaking news and analysis, silly hashtag games, horribly abusive idiots spewing hate and much, much more. Another constant across the platform is sarcastic reactions to all manner of events big and
The totes amazesh way millennials are changing the English language By Jeff Guo There’s a way that young people talk these days, and it’s totes hilars. You see it on Twitter a lot, people exclaiming about their totes delish spags or theirtotes redic boyfs. Linguists Lauren Spradlin and Taylor Jones call this practice “totesing” — the systematic abbreviation (“abbreviash”) of words to effect
It was with great pleasure that our team presented during the 7th Conference for postgradute Students, our article on machine translation. We presented our findings on May 17th, during the afternoon session. The atmosphere was great and we were happy that everything went like clockwork. The conference…