Analyzed samples of the public speech
In the animated stimulus video for this TED-Ed lesson, "Alex Gendler explains how linguists group languages into language families, demonstrating how these linguistic trees give us crucial insights into the past" (Let's Begin, ¶1, 2015.03.31).
"The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors" (Welcome to WALS Online, ¶1, 2014.11.07).
"Based entirely on ESL essays, the researchers [at MIT and Technion] were able to create a language similarity tree, showing the close links between, for instance, Japanese and Korean. Their language similarity tree looks remarkably similar to one based on data from The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)."
"LingPipe is tool kit for processing text using computational linguistics. LingPipe is used to do tasks like:
+ Find the names of people, organizations or locations in news
+ Automatically classify Twitter search results into categories
+Suggest correct spellings of queries
To get a better idea of the range of possible LingPipe uses, visit our tutorials and sandbox" (What is LingPipe, retrieved 2012.12.17).
This site provides access to downloads of the Stanford Log-linear Part-Of-Speech Tagger, currently Version 3.1.4, 2012-11-11.
"...[A] practical guide for those who might wish to employ the tagger for use with XML or who might want to understand how to set up xGrid to help distribute a big tagging job" (¶1, retrieved 2012.12.17).
Peter M. Nardi, Skeptic's Cafe, 2012.03.22
"The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers" (About page, ¶2, 2012.04.10).