Ling 354: Language & Computers

So much of our modern lives happens through computers, phones, and other electronic devices. The same is true of our language. How do computers shape our language, and how do we adapt computers to our language use? This class considers a range of topics connecting language and computers, including speech recognition systems (Alexa, Siri, Google …

Ling 354: Week 5

[This is extracted from the Spring 2022 version on Canvas, so some links/formatting may be broken.] This week, we’re building on last week’s core ideas about speech recognition. We’ll start by discussing biases in speech recognition and how to overcome them, based on the Scientific American article as well as two others I’m posting here on machine …