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Heisse Jobs für Poeten
(Hot jobs for poets)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 15.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, misunderstanding
Summary | Linguists might become more important in new industries: chatbots need to be taught how to understand natural human language full of contradictions and unclarities. They have been developed by programmers but they misunderstand colloquial commands. Linguistic expertise is needed to improve artificial intelligence chatbots.
Image Description | Reuters image of a robot.
Das Problem mit dem ;-)
(The problem with ;-))
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 3.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | email, emojis, misunderstanding, politeness
Summary | First emojis have appeared in official writing: the Norwegien government included emojis in one of their letters. Norwegian linguists are critical of this saying that we need to establish rules about emoji use first because they are easily misunderstood. Emojis have entered our everyday communication so profoundly that we now read even workplace emails without emojis as rude.
Image Description | Getty image of a Macbook keyboard with emoji keys.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, emojis
Geldstrafe für irreführende Emoji
(Fee for misleading emojis)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 24.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, law, misunderstanding
Summary | A man in Isreal sued a woman over misleading emoji use. The woman had expressed interest in the man's house for rent with the use of many emojis such as the Champagne bottle and then did not follow through with renting the house. The court decided that the woman would have to pay a fee equivalent to CHF 2000.
Image Description | N/A
Lacht er noch oder weint er schon?
(Is he still laughing or is he crying already?)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 5.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are centrally organized in the Unicode Consortium based in Silicon Valley, CA. They decide which emojis are made available on all devices. They usually accept emojis that are globally significant, like for example the new hijab emoji. Even though they try to make their emoijis more diverse, they still get criticized for giving all male emojis short hair and all female emojis long hair. Many Japanese people say that Westerners misunderstand many of the emotive emojis and misuse them.
Image Description | Emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
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