Have we really reached a million words in the English language?
Are all the words equally valid? Probably not.
Punctuation can play merry hell with parsers, a truth that's becoming ever more inconvenient.
Click through to read some of the problems and consider what needs to be done.
What's so great about an eReader?
Click through and a linguist will tell you.
Corpora are a big part of being a computational linguist. The new mash-up culture of the Web though, is doing some really exciting things that help us find and create new corpora quickly and easily.
Read on to see what this means for linguists and developers.