Linguists predict unknown words using language comparison Date: April 27, 2021 Source: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Summary: A new article describes an experiment that ...

For a long time, historical linguists have been using the comparative method to reconstruct earlier states of languages that are not attested in written sources. The method consists of the ...

Teaching computers to understand human languages Date: May 6, 2016 Source: University of Liverpool Summary: A set of algorithms has been developed that will help teach computers to process and ...