Computational Linguistics

AI’s Sign Language Problem

We've taught AI to understand our spoken words, but sign language presents a far greater challenge that goes beyond tracking…

3 months ago

How Algorithms Read Your Resume

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) don't "read" your resume; they parse it using strict linguistic rules. To get past this digital…

3 months ago

Error Cascades: One Typo, System-Wide Failure

How can a single misplaced comma bring down an entire software system? This piece explores "error cascades" from a linguistic…

3 months ago

AI’s Tone Shift: The Linguistics

The startlingly human new AI voices are more than a programming feat; they represent a breakthrough in computational prosody. Linguistics…

3 months ago

The Ghost in the AI: Rediscovering Linguistics

We think of AI models as magical black boxes, but what if they're simply rediscovering the rules of language that…

3 months ago

The Anti-Turing Test: What is Author Verification?

Author verification is the "Anti-Turing Test"—a field of linguistic forensics that determines if a specific person wrote a given text.…

3 months ago

Digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls: An OCR Puzzle

Teaching a computer to read is simple, but what if the text is a 2,000-year-old, fragmented manuscript written in an…

3 months ago

AI’s Language Puzzle: Who Has the Telescope?

Consider the classic riddle: "I saw a man on a hill with a telescope." This simple sentence, which can mean…

6 months ago

The Forger’s Bane: What is Stylometry?

Did you know your writing style is as unique as a fingerprint? Stylometry is the fascinating science of statistically analyzing…

6 months ago

Re-voicing the Past: The AT-ST Project

We can read the words of Charlemagne's era, but what did they actually sound like? A groundbreaking initiative called the…

6 months ago

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