I went searching for an answer on the Internet; humans told me the truth, but the site wanted me to listen to an AI — and that AI lied to me.
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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 2
[This is extracted from the Spring 2022 version on Canvas, so some links/formatting may be broken.] In our Week 2 meeting (Feb 3), we’ll first wrap up writing systems and Unicode. Then we’ll be looking into the implications of getting languages onto computers, including ways that computerized language may support or impede certain languages’ use …
Ling 354: Week 1
[This is extracted from the Spring 2022 version on Canvas, so some links/formatting may be broken.] In our Week 1 meeting (Jan 27), we’ll be looking at the world’s writing systems, and how they can be encoded into a format for computers to use. Textbook reading The textbook reading for Week 1 is Ch. 1.1-1.3. This …