Time: Wednesday 11:00 - 11:50 / Location: Astor Ballroom

Language has rules, and the better we know them, the better we can engineer with them. With a not-shy attitude toward the well-studied but under-solved problems of natural language processing, we navigate the best-and-worst that linguistics can offer software development. By addressing grammar, word-sense, and idiomatic language forms, app-developers are beginning to build interfaces that straddle the English language. Referencing Zipfs Law, universal grammar, and all the hazards of modern web-development, we negotiate the cost-benefits of using human language in software.