Ever wondered how you would know when you are fluent in a foreign language? 

Since a few days, I know I’m fluent in English.

Ever wondered why German speaking people do not understand each other?

You can compare this issue to the difference between British English and American English - just worse, because usually neither part of the conversation knows about the issue and both think they are speaking «proper» German.

Today, I want to tell you how difficult it can be to order food. "Paprika" and "Peperoni" have reversed meanings if you cross the border between Switzerland and Germany.

I didn’t know about the difference until I was in my twenties and had always awk-ward conversations while ordering food.

«Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache» 

German language is a difficult language.

Yes, German is difficult and a lot of fun! 

Today, I want to share how "Urinsekten" can refer either to two or six leg creatures and/or something normal or gross, depending on how you read it.

I was asked to write some general blog posts about different NLP topics. This is the third one:

An overview how machines are translating human speech into written text.

I was asked to write some general blog posts about different NLP topics. This is the second one:

A non-technical explanation why we would love to have natural language interfaces for databases, and why we are not there yet.

I was asked to write some general blog posts about different NLP topics. This is the first one:

Why it is important to have a customized model if you are using machine translation in your company.

During my studies I was told that a good lemmatizer uses PoS tags (and vica versa). A few weeks ago, I saw first hand what the impact is if the lemmatizer does not use PoS-tags in German.

Because it was a quite interesting finding, I wrote a blog post about it!

Finally, a new NLP blog post!

This time I wrote about the challenges of lists of compositions: a great invention to shorten your lists, but really painful during automated analysis.

I always thought that medical reports have a clear language and use certain, highly specific terms.

Now that I work with radiology reports, I’m amazed with the creativity used to describe a single pathology.

I started working with radiology reports at Balzano Informatik AG.

I wrote my first NLP blog post where I explain what our task is and which challenges we will have to solve.