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Sprachwissenschaft in Potsdam: Sprache ist Weltverständnis http://www.pnn.de/campus/1191373/

Maori language in danger of dying out, principal warns http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/94055145/maori-language-in-danger-of-dying-out-principal-warns

Crow women gather to practice language, saying 'our language is our identity' http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/crow-women-gather-to-practice-language-saying-our-language-is/article_0237b1c2-25a5-5f0b-b81b-e64b31f1a60a.html

Elon Musk and linguists say that AI is forcing us to confront the limits of human language https://qz.com/1005275/language-matters-more-than-ever-in-the-age-of-ai/

Why linguistics can't always identify cyber attackers' nationality http://www.csoonline.com/article/3200545/security/why-linguistics-cant-always-identify-cyber-attackers-nationality.html

"Speech, Renaissance or Disruption?" by Nicolas De Kouchkovsky http://www.ucstrategies.com/unified-communications-strategies-views/speech-renaissance-or-disruption.aspx

"Defence looks to AI for national security: Creating 'agent-based system' to wade through intelligence." by Ry Crozier https://www.itnews.com.au/news/defence-looks-to-ai-for-national-security-465047

"Indigenous languages as tools for technological advancement" by Iyabo Lawal https://guardian.ng/features/indigenous-languages-as-tools-for-technological-advancement/

Research Tracks Shifts in Canadians' Distinctive Accent Canadians are changing how they say words -- and so are many Americans. by Joel Shurkin https://www.insidescience.org/news/research-tracks-shifts-canadians-distinctive-accent

"EU Spends Another EUR 2.4m on Translation Research for Digital Single Market" by Eden Estopace https://slator.com/demand-drivers/eu-spends-another-eur-2-4m-on-translation-research-for-digital-single-market/

Cognitive linguistics tool Mrs. Wordsmith lands £2m seed investment http://startups.co.uk/mrs-wordsmith-lands-2m-seed-investment/

"Forget chatbots — you should create a workbot instead" https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/14/forget-chatbots-you-should-create-a-workbot-instead/

"Les boursiers du programme international" by Pénélope Clermont http://www.larevue.qc.ca/scolaire_boursiers-programme-international-n42539.php

Le dialogue et la conversation à la croisée des approches (Tunis) (" Dialogue and conversation at the crossroads of approaches")   https://www.fabula.org/actualites/le-dialogue-et-la-conversation-la-croisee-des-approches_79997.php

Healthcare Natural Language Processing Market Opportunities, Demands, Size, Share, Trends, Industry Sales Area and Its Competitors by 2022 http://www.satprnews.com/2017/06/13/healthcare-natural-language-processing-market-opportunities-demands-size-share-trends-industry-sales-area-and-its-competitors-by-2022/

The Israeli Natural Language Processing Meetup: Conversational Data & Hebrew NLP: https://www.meetup.com/The-Israeli-Natural-Language-Processing-Meetup/events/240728858/

"This package contains the Sockeye project, a sequence-to-sequence framework for Neural Machine Translation based on MXNet . It implements the well-known encoder-decoder architecture with attention." https://github.com/awslabs/ sockeye

We are testing new designs and functionalities for the new LINGUIST List website . The experimental new setting can be found at: http://new.linguistlist.org/ It is changing on a daily basis and soon a new site will be up! You can follow the design experiments and new features using the URL above.

Linguist, architect named AD White Professors-at-Large https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/06/linguist-architect-named-ad-white-professors-large  

Linguistics professor Bob Blust honored with lifetime achievement award http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2017/05/31/blust-lifetime-achievement-award/

We are glad that the Ask-A-Ling postings and links are available on social media again. Please support the users with linguistic questions! https://askaling.linguistlist.org/questions/

Bright Lights, Big City, Gray Hair: Retiring to Manhattan An article mentioning our retired linguistics colleague and LINGUIST List advisor Susan Fischer: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/business/retirement/retirement-manhattan-senior-citizens.html

There are 23 Indian-Language Wikipedias. The Oldest Just Turned 15 https://globalvoices.org/2017/06/08/there-are-23-indian-language-wikipedias-the-oldest-just-turned-15/

Can a Podcast Revitalize an Endangered Alaska Native Language? https://psmag.com/education/ your-s-town-followup

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