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Why is English classified as a Germanic rather than Romance language?

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When you think one word, but write another, similar sounding word?

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Is there a list of mutually intelligible languages?

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How does Kaldi compare with Mozilla DeepSpeech in terms of speech recognition accuracy?

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Why do European languages use a similar alphabet, but South East Asian languages do not?

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Which languages have words containing the same letter three times in a row?

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Is there a long list of languages whose writing systems don't use spaces?

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Impossible bigrams in the English Language

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What kind of a word class are numbers?

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What languages use numbers to name the week days and months?

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Articles before the name of a person

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Are there languages that distinguish between inclusive and exclusive “or”?

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Is there a well-established metric to measure the effectiveness of a parsing algorithm?

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Is there a favoured data structure for storing ambiguous parse trees in Natural Language Processing?

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Why do some German words have 'th' instead of 't' in their older spelling?

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How can I do data augmentation for text classification?

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How to perform word by word translations?

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Lists of linguistic resources

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Feb 24 '19 at 4:57 Community♦ 1

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When were there the most languages?

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How to find a given text's complexity?

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What are uses of Dependency Parsing in NLP / Computational Linguistics?

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Is there any evidence of language contact between the Inuit and Ainu languages?

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Are there right-branching agglutinative languages?

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Was language invented only once or several times?

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Negation detection software

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Why did “exempli gratia” (e.g.) and “id est” (i.e.) become widespread in English, but not in other languages?

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Has any language ever borrowed an interrogative or relative pronoun?

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Who was the first to call noun classes “genders”?

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Is there any language in which the gender of the subject/object is marked in every verb conjugation?

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German Dependency Parsing - question about dependencies between “sich ____ lassen”

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Why is English classified as a Germanic rather than Romance language?

When you think one word, but write another, similar sounding word?

Is there a list of mutually intelligible languages?

How does Kaldi compare with Mozilla DeepSpeech in terms of speech recognition accuracy?

Why do European languages use a similar alphabet, but South East Asian languages do not?

Which languages have words containing the same letter three times in a row?

Is there a long list of languages whose writing systems don't use spaces?

Impossible bigrams in the English Language

What kind of a word class are numbers?

What languages use numbers to name the week days and months?

Articles before the name of a person

Are there languages that distinguish between inclusive and exclusive “or”?

Is there a well-established metric to measure the effectiveness of a parsing algorithm?

Is there a favoured data structure for storing ambiguous parse trees in Natural Language Processing?

Why do some German words have 'th' instead of 't' in their older spelling?

How can I do data augmentation for text classification?

How to perform word by word translations?

Lists of linguistic resources

When were there the most languages?

How to find a given text's complexity?

What are uses of Dependency Parsing in NLP / Computational Linguistics?

Is there any evidence of language contact between the Inuit and Ainu languages?

Are there right-branching agglutinative languages?

Was language invented only once or several times?

Negation detection software

Why did “exempli gratia” (e.g.) and “id est” (i.e.) become widespread in English, but not in other languages?

Has any language ever borrowed an interrogative or relative pronoun?

Who was the first to call noun classes “genders”?

Is there any language in which the gender of the subject/object is marked in every verb conjugation?

German Dependency Parsing - question about dependencies between “sich ____ lassen”