Could the Birth of a Word Prevent the Death of a Language

By Nataly Kelly

When I first saw Deb Roy's TEDTalk, "The Birth of a Word," I was struck by the power of data-rich research to reveal important information, opening up the door for machines to learn more effectively. However, I was also taken aback by something else -- how large amounts of data such as this could help human beings learn more effectively. In fact, it reminded me that enough data can even keep an endangered language from falling into extinction. 

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