The future of search engines: Researchers combine artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing and supercomputers
How do search engines generate lists of relevant links?
Computer Sciences
Aug 3, 2017
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Chatbots aren't Terminators—they're just trying to 'optimize outcomes'
Yes, Facebook's chatbots have created their own, non-human language to communicate with each other. No, this doesn't mean they're planning to take over the world.
Computer Sciences
Jun 21, 2017
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The evolution of computational linguistics and where it's headed next
Earlier this year, Christopher Manning, a Stanford professor of computer science and of linguistics, was named the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, thanks to a gift from the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation.
Computer Sciences
May 31, 2017
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Facebook says it found faster way to translate through AI
Facebook says its researchers have found a new way to use artificial intelligence to translate material on its social network faster and more accurately.
Internet
May 9, 2017
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Prefabricated phrases in young learners' oral language
A new doctoral dissertation by Parvin Gheitasi at Umeå University explores the different functions of prefabricated phrases in young learners' oral language production. These phrases provided learners with an instrument ...
Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2017
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CUNY linguist to speak on second language acquisition and loss
Dr. Gita Martohardjono of Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) will speak at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to take place in Boston ...
Social Sciences
Feb 19, 2017
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English-language learners may be over-represented in learning disabilities category
For years, minorities have been disproportionately placed in special education classes, and figures available indicate the complexity of this issue for one group. National estimates reveal that English-language learners may ...
Social Sciences
Feb 15, 2017
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Computing gives us tools to preserve disappearing languages
In 100 years, many of the world's 7,000 languages could be extinct. Hundreds of years of oral storytelling will disappear in the space of a couple of generations.
Social Sciences
Jun 14, 2016
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Decades of computer vision research, one 'Swiss Army knife'
When Anne Taylor walks into a room, she wants to know the same things that any person would.
Computer Sciences
Apr 1, 2016
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Linguistics researcher uses pop music to teach vocabulary
Friederike Tegge, who has taught German and English, was inspired to conduct research on pop music when she observed that many of her students showed a surprising memory for song lyrics in a foreign language and could repeat ...
Social Sciences
Dec 16, 2015
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