A young child’s ability to acquire language is nothing short of astonishing. But occasionally a toddler will pick up an inappropriate word, often with no comprehension of its meaning. Fortunately, ...

Spoken language understanding (SLU) and dialogue systems form the backbone of interactive computing, enabling machines to interpret, process, and respond to human speech. These systems integrate ...

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Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study. Our ability to store ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. This is one of the topics that Alphabet’s AI lab DeepMind is tackling in a trio of research papers published ...

The “…business of a philosopher is not to change the world but to understand it...” The “…only label I’ve ever given myself is logical atomist… the way ...

Semioticians classify signs or sign systems in relation to the way they are transmitted. To illuminate one way semioticians look at things, let us peek at stage and film semiotics, which study the ...