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- 1. Leveraging global dictionary content on digital platforms
- 3. Oxford’s global reach: • OUP publishes in 70 languages • More than 190 countries #W_F_Disrupt @NyZach1
- 4. Our mission Oxford University Press (OUP) is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education through its worldwide publishing.
- 5. The OED in two minutes http://agendr.org/static/twominuteoed/ An interactive animation exploring when and how words entered the English language, and how the lexicon as a whole developed as a result. This exploits date, etymology, and frequency information across the OED dataset. #W_F_Disrupt @NyZach1
- 7. Example applications: Historical frequency data 7 http://oedfrequency.agendr.org/r/home Username: demo / Password: XCZt9fLr This aggregates historical word- frequency data from a number of corpora and other resources, such as the Google Books Ngrams data, and maps this data to OED lemmas. This enables the user to explore how words have changed in frequency over time, to compare frequency change for different words, and to rank sets of OED entries by frequency (now or at any point back to 1750).
- 8. Example applications: Text metrics 8 http://wordrobot.com/apps/textmetrics/home Username: demo / Password: XCZt9fLr This application takes a piece of text – historical or modern – and maps each word to OED data in order to explore and visualize the author’s style, choice of vocabulary, use of neologisms, etc. It can even rewrite pieces of text using alternative vocabulary from different historical periods. Try turning ‘Call me Maybe’ into a medieval lyric:
- 9. Example applications: mapping metaphor 9 A University of Glasgow and Arts and Humanities Research Council project that uses systematic patterns in the history of English to track the emergence of concepts and metaphorical associations at a cognitive and cultural level. http://mappingmetaphor.arts.gla.ac.uk/
- 10. Example applications: surf speak 10 An interactive timeline of surfing vocabulary, illustrating how specialist sub-lexicons and terminologies can be extracted from the OED. http://public.oed.com/media/surfing-timeline/
- 11. Oxford Dictionaries Data: Beyond the Page Presentation name Presenter Name and Date 11
- 12. Oxford Global Language Solutions Oxford Global Languages Oxford Dictionaries: To enable rich, diverse language communication in the digital age www.oed.com www.oxforddictionaries.com API & Developer Program http://en.bab.la/dictionary #W_F_Disrupt @NyZach1
- 13. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/business/steve-jobs-and-the-power-of-taking-the-big-chance.html
- 16. Some of our licensing partners:
- 17. Oxford Global Language Solutions Available monolingual datasets NB: These statistics do not include stemming, which would add thousands of headwords to each language if considered separately. Language No. of headwords No. of definitions Arabic 7,059 56,000 Bulgarian 20,000 36,000 Catalan 55,000 117,000 Chinese (simplified) 73,000 96,000 Chinese (traditional) 50,000 67,000 Croatian 69,000 169,000 Czech 110,000 85,000 Danish 100,000 61,000 Dutch 69,000 87, 000 English (UK) 90,000 350,000 English (US) 90,000 350,000 Finnish 100,000 100,000 French 30,000 53,000 German 182,000 229,000 Greek 50,000 150,000 Hebrew 77,000 104,000 Hindi 70,000 96,000 Language No. of headwords No. of definitions Hungarian 75,000 150,000 Indonesian 36,000 59,000 Italian 96,000 145000 Japanese 65,000 89,000 Korean 301,000 368,000 Latvian 30,000 27,000 Malay 20,000 20,000 Norwegian 81,500 86,000 Polish 100,000 130,000 Portuguese 228,500 376,500 Romanian 67,000 100,000 Russian 41,000 100,000 Slovenian 93,000 133,000 Spanish 53,000 119,000 Swedish 68,000 137,000 Thai 38,000 38,000 Turkish 100,000 119,000 Vietnamese 45000 53,000 17
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- 20. Powered by Oxford Dictionaries 20
- 23. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, it goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, it goes to his heart.” - Nelson Mandela #W_F_Disrupt @NyZach1
- 24. Hindi, 41.1% Bengali, 8.1%Telugu, 7.2% Marathi, 7.0% Tamil, 5.9% Urdu, 5.0% Gujarati, 4.5% Kannada, 3.7% Malayalam, 3.2% Odia, 3.2% Punjabi, 2.8% Assamese, 1.3% Others, 7.0% Native speakers: distribution by language (2001 census) Among top 20 world languages • Hindi • Bengali • Telugu • Marathi • Tamil • Urdu
- 25. #W_F_Disrupt @NyZach1 Most common content languages for websites "Usage of content languages for websites". W3Techs.com. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- 26. • Internet connectivity continues to grow • But the internet is dominated by a few, large languages • This creates a “Digital Divide” • This is a global issue Oxford Global Languages Aims and objectives #W_F_Disrupt @NyZach1
- 28. https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ogl/find isiZulu Romanian Gujarati Northern Sotho Latvian Tatar Malay Swahili isiXhosa Urdu Hindi Southern Quechua Indonesian Tamil Tajik Setswana #W_F_Disrupt @NyZach1
- 31. Hindi Word of the Year February 2018 • In January, Oxford Dictionaries announced the first Hindi Word of the Year as ‘aadhaar’. • The term has recently become used to refer to the controversial 12-digit unique identification number issued to all Indians by the government. #W_F_Disrupt @NyZach1 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/aadhaar-is-the-hindi-word-of-the-year-for- 2017/articleshow/62673933.cms