Thomas Lumley • 6/5/2017

Stupid word games

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The article explores the new R package for language detection (CLD2) by testing it with confusing sentences. It details games like finding obvious English quotes it misses and non-English text it accepts, using examples from platypus telegrams to Chomsky. The deeper point is about how automated classifiers make alien, non-human-like decisions, even when they mimic our outputs.

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