Imagining ourselves in the shoes of the other affords necessary perspective for effective verbal, written, or physical ...

Western University's Frank Boers explains why idioms can cause even fluent english speakers trouble with communicating and understanding.

Abstract: Language Models today provide a high accuracy across a large number of downstream tasks. However, they remain susceptible to adversarial attacks, particularly against those where the ...

Being a linguist — and someone who has tried to learn several languages (including English) in addition to my mother tongue (Flemish Dutch) — I have an annoying habit: instead of paying attention to ...

Tools for translating natural language into code promise natural, open-ended interaction with databases, web APIs, and other software systems. However, this promise is complicated by the diversity and ...