Linguistics

http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ 100M word -collection for english language “The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written. [more]”

http://robertfortner.posterous.com/the-unrecognized-death-of-speech-recognition An excellent article providing an overview and history of speech recognition technologies. For geeks looking into more tech details, pls see http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639412&cid;=32079936