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rime-cantonese, a Cantonese lexicon for building keyboards and more

October 31, 2021 @ 1:26 pm· Filed by under Language and computers, Romanization, Typing

The following is a guest post by Mingfei Lau. A short intro about the author:

My name is Mingfei Lau, a member of The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Jyutping Workgroup. I am a language engineer at Amazon and I work on different projects on Cantonese resource development in my spare time.

Today, Pinyin is undoubtedly the most popular way to type Mandarin. But what about Cantonese? This wasn’t easy until rime-cantonese, the normalized Cantonese Jyutping[1] lexicon appeared. Lo and behold, you can now type Cantonese in Jyutping just like typing Mandarin in Pinyin.

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The implications of Chinese for AI development

October 25, 2021 @ 8:45 pm· Filed by under Artificial intelligence, Language and computers, Typing

New article in EnterpriseAI (October 21, 2021):

"Language Model Training Gets Another Player: Inspur AI Research Unveils Yuan 1.0",  by Todd R. Weiss

From Pranav Mulgund:

This article introduces an interesting new advance in an artificial intelligence (AI) model for Chinese. As you probably know, Chinese has been long held as one of the hardest languages for AI to crack. Baidu and Google have both been trying for a long time, but have had a lot of difficulty given the complexity of the language. But the company Inspur just came out with a model called Yuan 1.0 that shows significant advances from previous companies' AIs.

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Keyboarding and typing

October 1, 2021 @ 7:50 am· Filed by under Typing

From Barbara Phillips Long:

When did the word "keyboarding" replace "typing" in my vocabulary? I don't remember. It was hard to look up, because mostly my searches defaulted to "keyboard," which in this case is not helpful. But apparently it is a less common term than I thought. Take a look at these comments at Ask a Manager, where Alison Green provides workplace advice:

 
Richard Hershberger     *September 21, 2021 at 11:48 am

As an aside, when did the word “keyboarding” enter the language, and “typing” drop out? I’m not complaining about it. I am genuinely curious. About five years back I was at Back to School night where my kid’s teacher mentioned instructing in “keyboarding.” She was probably in her mid-twenties. I didn’t know the word, so I asked her if that was what we used to call “typing.” She was befuddled. She had never heard the word.

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