Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and that freaks some people out. But the real problem is that AIs may not be smart enough.
Whether you’re concerned about the future of human/computer interaction, or you just want a fun description of machine …
Communities need language. But a lot of the documentation is locked up in the archives.
So now linguists are teaming up with community researchers to demystify linguistic research, so that this work can be taken to their communities to help …
We hear what we expect to hear.
That’s a problem in court, where covert audio recordings are often unclear. Who decides what goes into the transcript that lawyers, judges, and juries will see?
We’re talking to Dr Helen Fraser about …
The mail keeps coming, and we keep answering.
If you’re at a park in New York City, you may see someone at a table offering free grammar advice.
That person is writer Ellen Jovin, and she dispenses wisdom from her Grammar Table. What motivates her to do …
Juxtapose. Obfuscate. And of course, absquatulate.
All these words appear in a new dictionary for young people. It’s The Dictionary of Difficult Words, and we’re talking to the author, lexicographer Jane Solomon.
Activate your sesquipedalian …
What happens to language when newcomers move in?
Language isn’t just for communication — it also signals membership in a group, and this is especially clear in a gentrifying community in Washington DC. Black residents are using African-American English to stake …
Gesture. We all do it. But what are our brains doing while it’s going on?
What does gesture contribute to our interpretation? Can we work out complex meanings when words are replaced by gestures? And when a gesture like the …
Fiddler on the Roof is heading to Broadway — in Yiddish for the first time.
What went into the production? How did translation work? What does this production mean to the cast and to audience members?
Daniel speaks with Zalmen Mlotek…
Do you know where your data is?
Language researchers can learn a lot from publicly available internet data. But what are the ethical issues surrounding the collection and use of this information? What about data that comes from home assistants? Does it …
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