Language identification

Language identification is the process of determining which natural language given content is in. Traditionally, identification of written language – as practiced, for instance, in library science – has relied on manually identifying frequent words and letters known to be … Read More

Community card poker – Omaha hold ’em

Another hold ’em variant is Omaha hold’em. Each player is dealt four cards to his private hand instead of two. The betting rounds and layout of community cards is identical to Texas hold ’em. At showdown, each player’s hand is … Read More

Public service advertising

posted in: Advertising 0

The same advertising techniques used to promote commercial goods and services can be used to inform, educate and motivate the public about non-commercial issues, such as AIDS, political ideology, energy conservation, religious recruitment, and deforestation. Advertising, in its non-commercial guise, … Read More

e-Mail marketing terms

Auto-responders : Automatic replies sent by the e-mail software of the recipient after receipt of an e-mail. Bounce backs e-mail sent back to the server that originally sent the e-mail. Bounce rate Ratio of bounced e-mails to total e-mails sent. … Read More

Translation memory software

Translation memory (TM) programs store previously translated source texts and their equivalent target texts in a database and retrieve related segments during the translation of new texts. Such programs split the source text into manageable units known as “segments”. A … Read More

1 … 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 … 384