When the protagonist in the British cult sci-fi novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" sticks a creature called a Babel fish in his ear, it translates all alien speech for him. Can artificial intelligence (AI) give us something similar? Thanks to advances in machine learning, says linguist Anatol Stefanowitsch, a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, we already have simultaneous speech translation systems that could make the arduous work of learning a foreign language obsolete. Comput
Every year German linguists honor an English word that has "had a positive influence on the development of the German vocabulary." They said this year's selection spread into use at a "speed rarely seen."
Im Job gibt es viele Situationen, in denen nicht klar ist, ob man die Kollegen duzen oder siezen soll. Zur Orientierung gibt es ein paar Regeln. Der Sprachwissenschaftler Anatol Stefanowitsch erklärt sie uns.
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