Anyone who has spent time with a baby knows how unpredictable the first year can feel. One week a baby suddenly seems to “get” something new. The next week, that same response may disappear. Parents ...

People often seem to understand language before they have actually heard enough words to determine its structure. In everyday ...

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

Interest in studying Swahili – the lingua franca of much of East Africa – is booming in Egypt.

This illustrates a widespread problem affecting large language models (LLMs): even when an English-language version passes a safety test, it can still hallucinate dangerous misinformation in other ...

I was early to the generative AI wave in higher education: I was among the first professors who teach writing to publish in an academic journal about generative AI and critical thinking, and I am now ...

For decades, language barriers have hindered researchers' ability to assess child-caregiver relationships in refugee ...

A new analysis of genetic studies proposes that the cognitive capacity for language was already present at least 135,000 years ago.

The Algerian language, commonly referred to as Darija, constitutes a complex linguistic phenomenon resulting from a long history of cultural contact and ...

Google Research has proposed a training method that teaches large language models to approximate Bayesian reasoning by learning from the predictions of an optimal Bayesian system. The approach focuses ...

Joshua Plotnik, director of Comparative Cognition for Conversation Lab at the City University of New York, delivered a PBS ...