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Essays in English yield information about other languages
23 July 2014, 3:13 pm

Grammatical habits in written English reveal linguistic features of non-native speakers' languages, researchers report. The work could enable computers chewing through relatively accessible documents to approximate data that might take trained linguists months in the field to collect. But that data could in turn lead to better computational tools.

Source: Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily