I was excited to read about Xerox’s Language Guesser. If you can’t identify a sentence in a foreign language, just paste the sentence into their convenient type-in field, and the intelligent Xerox software will correctly guess the language.

Sounds like a good example of AI. So I typed a sentence in Haitian Creole that I found in Mountains Beyond Mountains:

pa ka konprann bagay ki pa senp

And sure enough, the artificially intelligent software identified it as…

Categories: Linguistics