Lexicography

Santa Fe Institute lecture delves into field of culturomics

17 Jan 2012

To borrow from the Bard, what's in a word? When and how often a word is used in literature says a lot about culture, society and trends, claim researchers who created a computer program to analyze words and phrases in millions of books.

Land of the Rising Zun

16 Jan 2012

It could be the world’s most implausible opus: the first Yiddish-Japanese dictionary. Its publication crowned decades of work and includes 28,000 entries.