Prof. Brian Joseph (Slavic and Linguistics Departments) was recently featured in the U.S. News & World Report story "How language changes, courtesy of Yelp and the Gray Lady". The article discusses web tools for exploring how language changes.

Check it out! 

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/07/31/new-tools-from-yelp-and-the-new-york-times-examine-changes-in-language