machine translation, semantic analysis and life in China
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2008
Now that the Beijing Olympic Committee has finished cracking down on non-licensed fuwa, maybe they can send a team over to Sohu.com to break some kneecaps. The mega-portal appears to have been caught with its pants down stealing flash games from independent (read: poorer than BOCOG members) games designers:
Here’s the story more-or-less in full from […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 8th, 2008
Bizarre entries from the Linguistic Data Consortium still surface every now-and-then like sea creatures from the deep. The latest I noticed was a surprising definition for 深入研究. The dictionary had it as “lucubrate”, which WordNet defines as “to elaborate on”.
True to form, both Dict.cn and Kingsoft appear to have copied the entry wholesale without lucubrating […]
Posted in adso on Mar 4th, 2008
What do people feel about switching the output of the “popup annotation” (the default output from the Adso home page and the popups on newsinchinese.com to a more comprehensive definition (something that includes all of the glosses in the database)? Right now Adso chooses the most likely definition/pos given its understanding of Chinese grammar. I’m […]
Posted in litany on Mar 4th, 2008
Even those whose sole experience with China involve booze-fueled stopovers are probably familiar with the local custom of ignoring lines, regulations and courtesy except insofar as they provide opportunities for graft. This is cute for a while in the 入乡随俗 spirit of adventuring, but gets old fast once you realize there aren’t many other places where customs involve getting spit on while […]
