Archive for 29 December 2008

Television shows seldom get computer stuff right, so I shouldn’t be surprised.  But then I heard this humdinger on CSI New York during the 1 minute I was watching it.  After I simultaneously guffawed and snorted in derision, I changed the channel.

According to the somewhat suspect Definitions.net (suspect by default, since I haven’t evaluated it otherwise): 1. (noun) computational linguistics the use of computers for linguistic research and applications This particular definition came to my attention thanks to a Google alert and I thought it was about the shortest definition of computational linguistics I’ve ever seen. [...]