That’s not to say that the technology doesn’t have a function or won’t improve, but it does place a much lower ceiling on ...

A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...

The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is ...

The contents of this article are a pragmatic, simplified, and adapted version of John Austin’s (1962) work on speech act theory (SAT), first presented at Oxford University between 1951 and 1954 and at ...

What if you could bridge the gap between natural language and precise, actionable commands, all without overburdening your hardware or compromising privacy? That’s exactly what FunctionGemma promises ...

Conduction aphasia is a type of language disorder. It occurs due to damage in an area of the brain involved in language processing. Someone with the disorder may have difficulty repeating words or ...

Brain–computer interfaces are beginning to truly "understand" Chinese. The INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, the National Center ...

ABSTRACT: This opinion paper is about a probability in language use, about how a competent speaker should be aware of speaking for politeness or for camaraderie, and be capable of avoiding ...

“Language is a living pattern — something we shape, observe and share.” That idea guides the creative practice of artist and UC Santa Barbara assistant teaching professor Iman Djouini — and it will ...

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 ...

Abstract: Function calling is a fundamental capability of today’s large language models, but sequential function calling posed efficiency problems. Recent studies have proposed to request function ...