Computational Linguistics

AI’s Linguistic Blind Spots

AI language models can write poetry and translate languages, but their impressive abilities mask significant linguistic blind spots. Inheriting biases…

6 months ago

Hey Siri: The Unwritten Grammar of Voice Commands

Have you ever noticed you talk to Siri differently than you talk to a person? We've developed a unique "Machine…

6 months ago

Teaching AI Emotion: The Linguistics of Sentiment Analysis

How do we teach a machine to understand sarcasm or the subtle disappointment in a 'fine' review? This exploration delves…

6 months ago

How Search Engines Read Your Mind: The Linguistics of Search

Every time you use a search engine, you're interacting with a sophisticated linguistic machine that does more than just match…

6 months ago

The Chinese Room: Can a Machine Ever Understand?

John Searle's famous "Chinese Room" thought experiment poses a timeless challenge to the idea of a truly thinking machine. By…

6 months ago

Shattering Sentences: The Art of Tokenization

Before any AI can understand language, it must first shatter sentences into pieces through a process called tokenization. This crucial…

6 months ago

Speaking to Themselves: The Unsettling Rise of Inter-AI Languages We Can’t Understand

When two AI systems are tasked to work together, they often develop their own optimized, private language to communicate more…

6 months ago

The Unseen World of Linguistic Annotation: The Human Hands Behind AI Language Models

** Before an AI can understand language, a human has to teach it. This work is done by linguistic annotators,…

6 months ago

The Billion-Word Crystal Ball: How Corpus Linguistics Predicts the Future of Language

Ever wonder how new words like 'rizz' make it into the dictionary or why grammar rules seem to change over…

6 months ago

The ELIZA Effect: Why We Talk to Chatbots Like They’re Human

Have you ever found yourself saying "please" and "thank you" to a chatbot or voice assistant? This is the ELIZA…

6 months ago

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