A WUWM listener asked why colleges in Milwaukee don't offer African languages as foreign languages. Marquette and UWM only ...

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

According to some, artificial intelligence may end up amplifying something deeply human: our capacity to think through conversation. None of this means writing will disappear. Written records remain ...

This illustrates a widespread problem affecting large language models (LLMs): even when an English-language version passes a safety test, it can still hallucinate dangerous misinformation in other ...

The Infosys Prize 2025 in Humanities and Social Sciences was recently awarded to Professor Andrew Ollett, who teaches at the ...

Have you ever considered using your bilingual skills to assist others? A career in translating and interpreting might be for you. In Australia you can train for a TAFE certificate all the way to ...

In the first part of her interview on the It's Probably Not Rocket Science podcast, University of New Mexico linguist Erin Wilkinson discussed how ...

Vietnamese, for example, was one of the lowest-ranked languages for speed, but each syllable encoded a lot of information.

Academic and feminist J Devika’s politics is central to the job of translation, and she is never apologetic about it. Her recent translation of Manoj Kuroor’s novel The Day the Earth Bloomed won the ...

More than 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today and at least 3,000 of them, or 40 percent, are endangered. English is the most widely spoken language, with approximately 1.5 billion ...

In 2026, global language use is led by English, which ranks first when both native and second-language speakers are counted. With more than 1.5 billion users worldwide, English remains the dominant ...

After receiving evidence-based early interventions, roughly two-thirds of non-speaking kids with autism speak single words, and approximately half develop more complex language, according to a new ...