Computational Linguistics

Heterograms & Isograms: Words with Unique Letters

Explore the linguistic and mathematical fascination behind heterograms and isograms—words where no letter is ever repeated. This article delves into…

6 days ago

CamelCase vs. snake_case: The Grammar of Code

In the dialect of computer programming, spaces are illegal, forcing coders to adopt unique orthographic rules like CamelCase and snake_case…

6 days ago

The Indus Script: The Unicorn Seal Mystery

The Indus Valley Civilization left behind magnificent ruins and thousands of mysterious seals featuring a "unicorn" and short strings of…

6 days ago

Zipf’s Law: The Mathematical Mystery of Words

Why does the most common word in a language appear exactly twice as often as the second most common one?…

6 days ago

“Hello World”: The Birth of a Coded Ritual

The phrase "Hello, World!" is more than just the first program most coders write; it's a universal rite of passage…

2 months ago

A Computer Learns ‘Amo, Amas, Amat’

Long before AI could write a poem, the pioneers of computational linguistics took on a monumental task: teaching a room-sized…

2 months ago

The Dad Who Taped 90,000 Hours of Baby Talk

What if you could record every moment of your child's life to understand how they learn to talk? MIT researcher…

2 months ago

How a Machine Learns to Hear

Go inside your smart speaker and discover how it turns sound into text through the lens of linguistics. Explore the…

2 months ago

The Adlam Script: A Modern Alphabet for an Ancient People

For centuries, the Fula language, spoken by over 40 million people, lacked its own native script. In the 1980s, two…

3 months ago

Quantifying a Dialect’s ‘Distance’

How different are two dialects, really? Linguists can now answer that question with surprising precision. Discover the methods used to…

3 months ago

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