One of the world's 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half - including scores of indigenous North American languages—might not survive the 21st century, experts say. To preserve as much linguistic diversity ...
Social Sciences
Dec 12, 2017
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It's possible to identify the author of an email by analysing as little as two words, research by Nottingham Trent University suggests.
Computer Sciences
Oct 30, 2017
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Did you know that in every language, the most frequent word occurs twice as often as the second most frequent word? This phenomenon called 'Zipf's law' is more than one century old, but until now, scientists have not been ...
Social Sciences
Aug 10, 2017
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A team of international researchers, led by Colorado State University's Michael Gavin, have taken a first step in answering fundamental questions about human diversity.
Social Sciences
Feb 10, 2017
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The words people use on social media can reveal hidden meaning to those who know where to look.
Computer Sciences
Sep 29, 2015
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Academics at the University of York have discovered a correlation between genetic and linguistic diversity and concluded that at least in Europe people who speak different languages are also more likely to have a different ...
Social Sciences
Jul 3, 2015
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New research shows economic growth to be main driver of language extinction and reveals global 'hotspots' where languages are most under threat.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2014
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New research published in the June 2014 issue of Language presents evidence that the methods employed by the authors of articles published in prestigious international science journals are not supported by a more rigorous ...
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2014
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The primary author of the celebrated Bitcoin paper, and therefore probable creator of Bitcoin, is most likely Nick Szabo, a blogger and former George Washington University law professor, according to students and researchers ...
Internet
Apr 18, 2014
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Many residents of Britain, Italy, and Belgium imagine there to be a kind of north-south divide in their countries, marking a barrier between different social groups and regional characteristics. Now a new study by MIT researchers ...
Telecom
Dec 18, 2013
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