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Industry Watch: Language technology, meet social networking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2008

ROBERT DALE*
Affiliation:
Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia e-mail: [email protected]

Extract

Here's a round-up of notable events in the commercial language technology space in the last quarter of 2007, organized by broad application category. A common thread that pops up throughout many of these is the integration of language technology into social networking applications and other related Web 2.0 themes. I'd put my money on this being a hot direction in 2008.

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3 the ‘Industry Watch’ column in Volume 13, Issue 2 of this journal.

5 Some of which are not about ReQall at all, but have been mislabelled with a misspelling of recall, which probably wouldn't have happened if the providers had uploaded and annotated their videos using Spinvox instead of relying on their own spelling ability.

9 See www.metacarta.com for a two-minute demo video of what MetaCarta does.

11 From www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/emailsearch; you have to register for an IBM ID if you don't already have one.

16 See the ‘Industry Watch’ column in Volume 10 Issue 1 of this journal.

23 Google is your friend.