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

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is a key task in natural language processing (NLP), widely applied in education, news, and ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting ...

Discover how Markov chains predict real systems, from Ulam and von Neumann’s Monte Carlo to PageRank, so you can grasp ...

Think, know, understand, remember. These are just a few of the mental verbs we use every day to describe what happens in a ...

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect. Whether in a ...

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Joe Walsh is a senior editor for digital politics at CBS News. Joe previously covered breaking news for Forbes and local news in Boston. In the week since conservative activist Charlie Kirk was ...

Birds may seem to be singing randomly, but new research suggests their vocalizations may follow hidden rules similar to those that govern human language. Over the past three decades, scientists have ...

No single solution universally wins between Large Language Models (LLMs, ≥30B parameters, often via APIs) and Small Language Models (SLMs, ~1–15B, typically open-weights or proprietary specialist ...