PPT-Labeling the Languages of Words in Mixed-Language Documents

Methods Ben King and Steven Abney University of Michigan Language identification b ackground Language identification is one of the older problems in NLP Especially in regards to spoken language. Definitions. Stop Words. Removal of frequent words in the language that are not useful for discriminating between search results. User editable in all languages.. SmartSense. Emotion detection from text. Default dictionary availability is indicated. User editable dictionary available in all languages.. Laura Tomokiyo. What is language documentation?. Provides “a comprehensive record of the linguistic practices characteristic of a given speech community” (. Himmelman. 1998). Focuses on description and archiving. is . a New World. The European Day. . of Languages. It is celebrated on the 26 th of September.. English- a top language of the world. 400 million people. . speak English. It is spoken in the British Isles, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and much of Canada and South Africa. . Your warm up is on the . website . (sigren.weebly.com. ). It is titled “Lesson 2.Warm up” under the culture tab.. Warm up part 2!. What cultural trait did you enjoy the most over the weekend? Why?. Osher. Class, Spring, 2016. 1. Topics for the Class. Brief History of Linguistics. Brief History of Cultural Studies. Aspects of Language. Properties of Language. Language competence vs Language performance. . Dimitri. Volchenkov (Bielefeld University）- 2. nd. 45. ′. talk. Markov chain methods: Cases of study. Changes in languages go on constantly affecting words through. various innovations and . Borrowed Words. English uses a lot of words that were ‘borrowed’ from other languages. On the next slide are some examples.. Find more words to add to the list and see if you can find out which words came from other languages. . Listening, Reading and Vocabulary. բարի լույս. 早安. B. onjour. G. uten . Morgen. καλημέρα. おはようございます. 좋은 아침. صبح به خیر. D. zień . D. obry. доброе утро. Corpus building for under-resourced languages. Kevin P. . Scannell. Presented by:. Ben King. Problems with Minority Languages. Often no public funding available and no commercial interest in this work. Language Diversity. Numerous countries throughout the world operate with multiple languages.. Some are effective and some are ineffective.. Language . Diversity - Switzerland. Peacefully . exists with multiple languages.. Part I. Language Reflects Culture. Language tends to reflect the larger culture. Example:. Inuit have many words for snow and seal, whereas English does not (pg.18). Inuit language is an . agglutinating language. All slides ©Addison Wesley, 2008. TexPoint fonts used in EMF. . Read the TexPoint manual before you delete this box.: . A. A. Processing Text. Converting documents to . index terms. Why?. Matching the exact string of characters typed by the user is too restrictive. 1.. Which . is the most widely spoken language in the world. ?. a). Chinese . b). English . c). Spanish . d). Hindi .  .  . a) CHINESE. 2. . How . many living languages are there estimated in the world? . First Assignment. To be released over the weekend (due within the following week). 1. Today . What is Natural Language Processing?. Why is it hard? . Common Tasks in NLP. Language Modeling. Word and Sentence representations for ML.