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Interview with the linguist Frédéric Landragin, who recently published a short guide on interstellar communication.

Tracing languages back to their roots often presents challenges like missing words, scant evidence and countless questions. Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science hope to tackle some of these challenges using computer models that help reconstruct ancient languages. Even though they're no longer used, the protolanguages that spawned modern languages can provide a window into the cultural past.

While our everyday interactions with surveillance are now well beyond the depictions in George's Orwell's dystopian classic 1984, the novel's approach to truth and language is more relevant than we could have imagined.

In a new article, two UdeM librarians consider the possibilities and potential benefits of using ChatGPT and similar chatbots in campus libraries.

MIT Theater faculty invite students to draw upon their personal experiences to create evocative set, sound, and lighting designs, As a mechanical engineering and theater double major, senior Alayo Ol

Comedian Paul Merton and a Cardiff University academic have investigated why Radio 4 programme Just a Minute is so challenging for players.

Amicus briefs written in favour of abortion access were too weak in their language to be able to counter those written against, research concludes.

Ten years in the making, poet and Writing Seminars alum Chris Childers' 956-page translation of Greek and Latin lyric verse is a 'personal odyssey' gathering over 80 poets from across eight centuries

People actively engaging with death, for instance by reading about it, and then watching a film where that subject is central, learn to deal with death better.

Three neurosymbolic methods help language models find better abstractions within natural language, then use those representations to execute complex tasks. Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly useful for programming and robotics tasks, but for more complicated reasoning problems, the gap between these systems and humans looms large.

Will U.S. aid change the trajectory of the war in Ukraine? Congress has officially approved $61 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine.

The circus has come to Broadway and the musical team behind it has been clowning around together since their freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama.

Dr. Jennifer Harris is no stranger to the publishing industry as an agented author with three published picture books and a fourth on the way.

Article dated March 19, 2024, published in The Conversation online media, as part of the partnership with ENS de Lyon.