Beyond the theoretical definitions, the distinction between what we call a language and what we call a dialect gets a lot murkier very quickly. Quite often, politics play an important role in whether something gets labeled a language or a dialect.
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has introduced a new framework for interpreting slang in natural language processing (NLP).
By Ewandro Magalhães The Voyager space probes’ Golden Records — which carry the voices and sounds of Earth into space for any extraterrestrial who...
Arriving in America as a refugee with almost nothing to her name, Faiza Sultan quickly established herself as a hardworking and reliable linguist, which...