computational linguistics

The Red Squiggle: Linguistics of Spell Check

That familiar red squiggle under a misspelled word isn't magic; it's a marvel of computational linguistics. This post explores the…

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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…

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Language Carbon Dating: The Science of Glottochronology

Ever wonder how linguists estimate when languages like Spanish and French split from their common ancestor? The answer lies in…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Reading Speech: Secrets of the Spectrogram

What if you could see your own voice? Spectrograms, or "voiceprints," are powerful tools that turn the fleeting sounds of…

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The World’s First Word Processor

Before 'cut and paste' existed on a screen, there was the Friden Flexowriter, a revolutionary machine that used punched paper…

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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…

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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…

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