RUG::B

Ruby User Group Berlin

Judith Meyer wants to give this talk

Language Gotchas for Non-Linguists

Tentative outline:

Why .split(“ “) and .join(“ “) are almost never correct.
Why you are greeting some of your customers incorrectly
How to interpolate strings without having broken grammar
Around the world in Unicode punctuation
The evil that is <p dir=“auto”>
Known pain points of Amazon / Google / DeepL translation APIs
When to use AI, when to use a language algorithm

I have always been passionate about both languages and programming, so I studied computational linguistics. My first Ruby on Rails job was in 2008. Since then I have worked on a wide variety of projects, from machine translation to Duolingo clones, and even some stereotypical Rails applications like social networks. Currently I work for CaptionHub.