Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

AI and machine learning systems have become increasingly competent in recent years, capable of not just understanding the written word but writing it as well. But while these artificial intelligences ...

Constantine Lignos is an assistant professor of Computational Linguistics in the Computer Science Department at Brandeis University and this year’s winner of the Walzer Teaching Award. He teaches and ...

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I would have been surprised if it had looked only like language. Every specialized task has its own vocabulary, but computer languages don't take the place of regular languages for communication.

An international team of linguistics experts has traced the origins of the most common modern sign languages using a computer model to compare them against one another. The research is published in ...

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Example of recurrent change. Still images from video dictionary entries that illustrate the phonological pattern of thumb extension. Both signs are produced with four fingers extended, but the sign ...