Words of the Year

Language Change, 2010 style:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/weekinreview/19sifton.html

Processing.

So, yeah, in the past I've knocked on computers for not being as cool as humans, but since my foray into computer programming this semester, I've been giving natural language processing some thought. I'm not nearly knowledgable enough about programming to be able to do anything yet, but computers DO have the capabilities to process human language. It's kinda scary. It's kinda cool. And I want to learn more about it. Here we go...