The US Army is set to handsomely reward people fluent in Arabic and other languages they the army deems strategic for its missions.

The University of Bristol Language Centre has been selected by CILT, the National Centre for Languages to take part in a project funded by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) to design and deliver an innovative new language-learning programme. Entitled ‘Gateways into the Professions’, the project connects students with employers and professional bodies while they are still at university.

The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT.

Basis Technology Corp. announced today that it is delivering advanced linguistics modules integrated with the Lucene open source search engine.