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Language, technology, and society /
This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems. The book describes the social impact of technological developments over five millennia, and addresses topics such as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems. The book describes the social impact of technological developments over five millennia, and addresses topics such as the ways in which literacy has influenced cognitive and scientific development; the social impact of modern speech technology; the influence of various printing technologies; the usesand limitations of machine translation; how far mass information access is a means for exploitation or enlightenment. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191576386 0191576387 |