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Category Archive: Language

Analysing your writing interactively and better word frequency lists: Nalaprop 1.0b8

Type, press Cmd-Enter and Nalaprop parses your text to show word classes. Two clicks and it gives you word frequencies by lemma (‘root’) too.

November 2, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Making Sense of Text: How good is Mojave’s linguistic support?

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Not sure which is the verb, or can’t identify its root form? Did Google Translate just dump some garbage? Mojave’s linguistic abilities are top notch – here are some facts and figures.

October 30, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Making more of Mojave’s language support: Nalaprop 1.0b6

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Big internal changes now show different scripts, languages, parts of speech – all quickly accessible through a menu. For anyone interested in language(s).

October 26, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Beyond mere appearance: Dark Mode, the semantics of colour, and text without print

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We’re still writing most text in black on a white background on displays with wide colour and high-resolution. Why not use colour for additional meaning?

October 11, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Comment back to normal

I have returned controls over the posting of comments to normal: you are again very welcome to post […]

October 9, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

Comments temporarily restricted to newer articles

For some weeks, this blog has been targeted increasingly by one specific source of comment spam. I am […]

October 8, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

Getting word frequencies by lexical class: Nalaprop gets more useful

Now generates list of words used and their frequencies, grouped according to lexical class. Want to discover all the proper nouns or names in a document, for example?

October 1, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Linguistic Support: a promising start

Includes five major languages in depth: English, French, Spanish, German, and Russian. Here’s an app to explore its power, and a 20-language test file.

September 27, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Using Unicode better

Trying to work with Unicode can be frustrating at times. Here’s an excellent free book with valuable practical tips for all users, and much more for linguists too.

August 31, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Looking at natural language processing in macOS Mojave

As shown at WWDC, 10.14 can parse natural language text into its parts of speech. Here’s a demo app for beta-testers, to give an idea of its powers.

July 23, 2018 Language, Macs, Technology

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