With computers getting better and better at language, researchers are taking computational linguistics into a new area: suicide prevention.
How can looking at language data help to save lives?
Linguist Daniel Midgley finds out on this episode of Talk the …
Computers are doing more with language now than ever before, and a small army of word crunchers and data twiddlers are hard at work making it all happen.
It’s all on the table, from predicting the stock market to detecting …
The search engine giants are in the news.
Google is alleging that Microsoft’s Bing is copying its results. How do they know? And how does a search engine work anyway?
Linguist Daniel Midgley makes sense of the technology on this …
Last week, a computer system named Watson bested two human champions in a practice round of the trivia game Jeopardy!
Computers have beaten humans in chess before, but question answering is even more difficult because it involves the use …
We're Because Language now, and you can support the show by using our Patreon page. Plenty of audio, video, and text goodies. Thanks to all our patrons!
Become a Patron!Talk the Talk was a podcast about language that ran on community radio station RTRFM in Perth Australia. It aired on Tuesdays at 11am from about 2009 until early 2020.
Many people took part, but the main crew was Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, Kylie Sturgess, and Hedvig Skirgård.
All the regular and bonus episodes are here for your listening pleasure, along with the promos, where Daniel would tell what the upcoming show was about. Some shows have Cutting Room Floor posts, which contain fun stuff that didn’t make it into the regular show. There are also full interviews with our guests.
The team continues its linguistic adventures as Because Language, and you can hear their zany exploits at becauselanguage.com.
© 2024 Talk the Talk
Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑
