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MIT’s language studies needs test subjects

Posted in Uncategorized by Administrator on the August 3rd, 2006

Today I got paid $100 to spend the day at MIT (10:00 - 4:00) and take computerized language tests.

In some of the tests, I had to try to understand texts translated by a machine.  For all you future linguists, it’s interesting.  If you want to get on the mailing list to see which studies are looking for paid subjects, email bcs-subjects@mollylab1.mit.edu.  All the tests were in English. 

I also learned that MIT pays 40 cents a word to people who can translate Arabic. 

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