Globally, an estimated 300 million people live with a rare disease. They typically experience isolation, diagnostic difficulties, lack of therapies, fragmented care, stigma, a struggle for recognition ...

Let’s embrace what AI can do. What we must not forget is the human side of language. It adapts, understands and adds meaning.

Back in the 1980s, we blamed Aussie soaps Neighbours and Home and Away for reshaping the way teenagers spoke. Today, that ...

Abstract: This study examines language variation bias in Indonesian Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems through a mixed-methods approach. Two research questions guide the investigation: (1) how accurately ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

North Dakota has 15 nationally certified American Sign Language interpreters for the whole state, with none living west of U.S. Highway 83, according to a national registry. Lindsey Solberg Herbel, ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Cecelia Cutler is the co-editor of “Language Activism: The Role of Scholars in Linguistic Reform and Social Change” A new scholarly movement is pushing beyond the research–activism divide. The book ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has found that large language models (LLMs) – the AI systems behind chatbots like ChatGPT – generalize ...

CU Linguistics is pleased to present in a lecture by UIUC professor and computational linguist, Dr. Jonathan Dunn, in partnership with the Institute of Cognitive Science. This talk presents a ...