Language and the Internet

The language of the Web 209 indefinite number of people at indefinite times over several years. Several competitors for the ‘wor ...

210 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Eventhemostbasicsemanticcriteriaaremissingfromtheheavily frequency-dominated information retrieval ...

The language of the Web 211 and automatic document classification, once software is adapted to cope.^25 Thelackofevenanelementar ...

212 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET The linguistic limitations of word-processing and search-engine software affect our ability to fin ...

The language of the Web 213 I am therefore pleased to see the arrival of satire, as a means of drawing attention to the problem. ...

214 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET the more mundane task of matching query term to inde xterm. In an IR system hosting unrestricted t ...

The language of the Web 215 Brother-in-Law O’Toolewould be normalized in different ways by different IR systems. And it gets wor ...

216 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET As the non-English-speaking world comes online and preserves their full character sets in their on ...

The language of the Web 217 Table 7.1 Language distribution on the Web (see fn. 34) Number Corrected Ranking Language of pages p ...

218 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET then, with some commentators predicting that before long the Web (and the Internet as a whole) wil ...

The language of the Web 219 of sites which provide the evidence.^43 They range from individ- ual businesses doing their best to ...

220 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET those technologically developed parts of the world which happen to contain large numbers of minori ...

The language of the Web 221 academic subject; they are sites which allow us to see languages as they are. In many cases, the tot ...

222 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET inhabitant, more English-speaking people, etc.). The counter-attack is not to ‘fight against Engli ...

The language of the Web 223 languages’ which ‘will make all the data in the world look like one huge database’.^59 A great deal ...

8ThelinguisticfutureoftheInternet It seems to be a standard convention for books dealing with digital technology to begin or end ...

The linguistic future of the Internet 225 I have found clear signs of the emergence of a distinctive variety of language, with c ...

226 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET phrasestreaming media.It would appear that the aim is to make anything speedily available with any ...

The linguistic future of the Internet 227 experience real-time smooth visibility of the person(s) we are talking to – and also, ...

228 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET the magnitude required to make machine translation viable. The issue is, accordingly, only of theo ...