Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

AI and machine learning systems have become increasingly competent in recent years, capable of not just understanding the written word but writing it as well. But while these artificial intelligences ...

Constantine Lignos is an assistant professor of Computational Linguistics in the Computer Science Department at Brandeis University and this year’s winner of the Walzer Teaching Award. He teaches and ...

Artificial intelligence isn't just capable of translating between existing languages—it can also create entirely new ones.

In the beginning, computer programmers translated their desires into the language of machines. Now, those machines are becoming conversant in the language of their programmers. OpenAI's newly released ...

I would have been surprised if it had looked only like language. Every specialized task has its own vocabulary, but computer languages don't take the place of regular languages for communication.

Have you ever considered learning computer programming? Chances are you haven't. Computer programming is something everyone can do, but most people don't realize how easy and rewarding it is. Computer ...

A CIS major covers many disciplines and applications, and uses the computer as a powerful problem-solving machine.

An international team of linguistics experts has traced the origins of the most common modern sign languages using a computer model to compare them against one another. The research is published in ...

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