This tool was created by Eric Fisher and Ed Manley. The main languages detected were: English, Spanish, French, Turkish, Arabic, Portuguese, German, Italian, Malay and Russian. The corpus was of 3.3 million of tweets located in the London area (found out through GPS) during the summer. The different colors in the graph come from the detection of Google’s translation tools.
Click here and enjoy the interactive map of London’s twitter languages. The same map is available for New York City.
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I work in software development. I keep on writing from time to time People's Code to continue following some of my oldest passions: linguistics and language technologies. I'm Italian and I live in Luxembourg. Ah... the blog's name comes from my favorite definition of natural language: it is a shared code. It is not nice nor ugly, not simple nor difficult - we understand each other only because we share the same code and we (often) agree on it.
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