Sentences with phrase «chinese linguist»

Prior to joining Cabot, Paul was a senior financial writer for Putnam Investments» international and institutional communications, professor at the University of New Hampshire, and a Chinese linguist for the U.S. Army Security Agency.

Gladys Yang was a famous British translator who married a Chinese linguist Yang Xianyi — in 1941, this couple translated the best Chinese novel of all time: Dream of the Red Chamber.

You can find information about a language by collecting a corpus of data — for instance, the Chinese linguist studying my language could ask me various questions about it and collect the answers.

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Top of the vacancy list at France's DGSE, the equivalent of America's CIA or Britain's MI6, are posts for young information technology gurus and linguists who master the finer points of Russian, Chinese, or Farsi, widely used in Iran and Afghanistan.

David Bamman, a computer scientist and linguist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, got the idea for the research last summer when he noticed how quickly false rumours of the death of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin disappeared from China's Twitter equivalent Sina Weibo.

To conduct the study, the researchers used four large databases of sentences that have been parsed grammatically: one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists), and a Chinese - language database from the Linguistic Dependencies Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.

As I understand it, the linguist took sounds that would have been in ancient Chinese tongues and mashed them together to create «sentences.»