Natural language processing technology refines our internet search results, helps voice assistants such as Siri understand our questions and commands, keeps spam out of our email inboxes, and more.

Philosophy of language and linguistic theory examine the intricate relationship between language, meaning and the mind. This interdisciplinary field interrogates the ways in which words and ...

The author develops a new game-theoretic approach, anchored not in Boolean two-valued logic but instead in linguistic fuzzy logic. The latter is characterized by two key features. First, the truth ...

Scholars have created a new global repository of linguistic data. The project is designed to facilitate new insights into the evolution of words and sounds of the languages spoken across the world ...

The paper explores first the postulational basis and significance of 'measures of information' in current information theory and their possible relations to physical entropy and Brillouin's ...

A study led by McGill University researchers challenges the theory that language change over time requires new generations to replace older generations of speakers. Rather, when words change meaning, ...