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The University of Manchester is set to launch the Manchester Digital Dante Library, a landmark digital collection which will make some of the rarest and most significant early printed editions of Dante's Divine Comedy available freely online for the first time.

The project of Prof. Marco Maggi, Associate Professor at USI Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, and Prof. Giuditta Cirnigliaro, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society of USI, titled " 20th Century Italian Studies of Literature and Arts.

Associate Professor in French literature in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University (Evanston).

100 years from now, how many people will still be speaking one of Canada's 70 Indigenous languages? UdeM demographers come up with a nuanced projection.

Merlin wasn't a wizard but a poet and a prophet with an interest in the natural world, studies into the earliest poems about him show.

As Donald Trump's begins his second term as President of the United States, a groundbreaking study led by The University of Manchester has revealed that a majority of Ukrainians hold a cautiously opti

Are humans or machines better at recognizing speech? A new study shows that in noisy conditions, current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems achieve remarkable accuracy and sometimes even surpass human performance.

In the 19th century, farmers had to live up to conflicting ideals: maintain authentic Dutch traditions on the one hand, and modernise in order to remain useful to the country on the other.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new research group at the University of Hamburg.

Ring in the New Year with this new take on a holiday tradition.

With the "Graz corpus of read and spontaneous speech", researchers at TU Graz have developed new methods for speech recognition of Austrian German using speech data from 38 people.

The University of Innsbruck plays a leading international role in the study of Neo-Latin literature. This focus will now be further strengthened with the approval of a special research area for Neo-Latin Studies by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Around 3.9 million euros will be available for the new research network over the next four years.

Sophie CHIARI et Anne-Marie MILLER-BLAISE (dir. Collection.

New work by Johns Hopkins researchers detects writing patterns of ChatGPT and other programs People write with personal style and individual flourishes that set them apart from other writers. So does artificial intelligence, including top programs like Chat GPT, new Johns Hopkins University-led research finds.

Over time, the English language has acquired quite a few Yiddish words, such as bagel. Some are now no longer even recognizable as such.

Before going to school to learn how to read and write their language, children first manage to understand and then speak it.