Friday, November 30, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: November 30

Abraham Kaplan
November 30

1950: Abraham Kaplan of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, completes a seminal study on the role of context in machine translation.
 
1976: A Mexican law bans non-Spanish advertising in the capital area.
 
1993: Phil Resnik and five of his colleagues are granted American patent no. 5 267 345 for a “Speech recognition apparatus which predicts word classes from context and words from word classes.”
 
2001: Linguistics enter the world of sports equipment manufacturing as Adidas in Pusan (South Korea) unveils what is claimed to be the fastest football ever made. Its spectacular speed is said to be due to its “syntactic surface.

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