What is linguistic engineering and what is it for?

ingeniería lingüística

Every day we use tools such as search engines to find information, we talk to artificial intelligences like Siri, Alexa or Google Home that serve as personal assistants; we use automatic translation systems to understand other languages; less frequently, we know of other applications such as those that perform automatic summarization of a document. Behind … Read more

Discourse markers in Spanish: your allies when writing

marcadores discursivos
In our everyday language we use sentences that have different types of relationships between them. We use the word 'but', to express an opposition; 'for', to express a purpose; 'therefore', to express a consequence... this peculiar group of words is known as discourse markers.. In this post we will address the following topics: What are discourse ... Read more

Spelling in the digital age

ortografía en internet

Contrary to what might be thought without much historical context, spelling is not something static and immovable.. Language is a living entity, constantly changing. New realities, such as the Internet, have generated the need to use words that effectively designate what we experience day by day. And in addition to the new words or neologisms, … Read more