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Friday, March 07, 2003
Internet shaping, tracking evolution of our language - Associated Press
Computer scientist Jon Kleinberg is taking a virtual stroll down the information superhighway, surfing cyberspace for verbal megatrends. Did you wince? Those hopelessly passe terms were passably hip just a few years back. Then, due to overuse or a feckless public, they fell out of fashion.... Kleinberg's research is really rather scientific. He uses algorithms to identify sudden jumps in the use of words, offering a glimpse into the mechanics of language evolution — what makes a word hot, or not.
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