[This is extracted from the Spring 2022 version on Canvas, so some links/formatting may be broken.] This week, we’re digging deeper into spell checking and language models. We’ll focus on simple models first, like n-grams, which we talked about at the end of class. That will require us to spend a little time talking about …
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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 …
Ling 354: Week 4
[This is extracted from the Spring 2022 version on Canvas, so some links/formatting may be broken.] This week, we’re turning to speech recognition. How do Alexa, Siri, Google, and other voice-activated assistants work? What causes difficulties for them, and how can we overcome them? For that matter, how does human speech recognition work? Why do …
Ling 354: Week 3
[This is extracted from the Spring 2022 version on Canvas, so some links/formatting may be broken.] In our Week 3 meeting, we’ll first wrap up emoji, including digging a bit deeper into how deeply we share our understanding of emoji. We’ll then turn to the QWERTY effect, research that argues that the ways we type …
Ling 502: Language, Mind & Society
Class Overview Language does not exist in a vacuum; every time we use language, it’s shaped by communicative, cognitive, and learning pressures. In this class, we combine concepts from theoretical linguistics with the real-world setting of its use, providing an overview of language acquisition, psycholinguistics (language in the mind), and sociolinguistics (language in social settings). …
Ling 521: Phonology
Despite the single-word name, Ling 521 covers basic phonetics and phonology. Phonetics is the study of linguistic sounds, both how they are produced (articulatory phonetics) and processed (acoustic & auditory phonetics). Phonology is the study of how sounds get used and organized within languages.