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Strata Week: Can big data save human language?

Big data and language preservation, growing data privacy concerns, and a comparison of big data to crude oil.

Preserving human language with big data

Inspired by Deb Roy’s 2011 TEDTalk, “The Birth of a Word,” Nataly Kelly at the Huffington Post’s TEDWeekends took a look at the potential effect big data could have on language — specifically, on preserving endangered and dying languages.

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