Tag: multilingualism
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Multilingualism research featured in The Guardian
28 May 2015
Author:A recent article in the Guardian newspaper by Holly Yong surveys much research about online language divides, including my work on multilingualism and cross-language bridging: Translation technologies offer one ...
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Design for multilinguals: Seemingly simple yet often missed
27 April 2014
Author:As I prepare my slides for CHI 2014, I’m struck by one implication I give for the research I will present on language and Twitter, “Allow each user to ...
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Language Bubbles
3 September 2012
Author:Eli Pariser has raised awareness that personalization algorithms play in filtering and ranking results on the web. I think this work is very important, but another strand seemingly obvious, ...
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Recent contacts working on cross-language problems
13 July 2012
Author:I’ve recently been able to meet some spectacular individuals who are working on various aspects of cross-language communication. This blog post won’t to justice to all of their work; ...
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Two new publications, new research project, looking to hire
26 February 2012
Author:A lot has happened since my last post, and the selected publications page has been updated to reflect this. I am very pleased to announce that my work looking ...
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Translating Twitter
29 March 2011
Author:I had the great opportunity to meet George Weyman, a project director at meedan, yesterday at an OII event. meedan has been doing great work in connecting English and ...
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Multilingual sharing in video
5 November 2010
Author:I’ve thought a lot about translation and multilingual sharing online in text environments (blogs, Wikipedia, social networking sites), but I’m reminded how quickly platforms change on the web, and ...
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How geographically or linguistically diverse is your online social network?
17 August 2010
Author:Three recent news stories highlight the international nature of many social media platforms: Pingdom Documents Top Countries On Facebook How Black People Use TwitterThe latest research on race and ...
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Naming Places/Features on Google Maps
12 August 2010
Author:Google Maps must engage in a cross-cultural (and often cross-lingual) act to publish its maps. Each place or feature name can be given in multiple languages, and occasionally as ...
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Homophily and the Internet
5 August 2010
Author:I recently had the opportunity to meet Ethan Zuckerman while he was on a visit to Oxford for TED where he gave a talk on Listening to global voices. ...
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