Bringing the fight to Duolingo, Google is releasing three new AI experiments with a focus on teaching people languages in a more personalized way. These experiments are still very much in their ...

Many people are overwhelmed by the fast-paced evolution of mass communication in a world increasingly shaped by the internet ...

When it comes to tackling language barriers in the classroom, the old “push in/pull out” model — adding teachers to classrooms to help students who are still learning English, or pulling students out ...

Large language models (LLMs), which are the artificial intelligence (AI) systems behind modern chatbots, translation tools, ...

In an age where connectivity is widespread and knowledge is readily available, the landscape of language learning has changed considerably. Gone are the days when we had to trawl through dictionaries ...

Since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT several months ago, there’s been an almost-complete panic in academic circles about the possibility (and sometimes, the reality) of students using AI-powered ...

A common interest in language unites social scientists and natural language processing (NLP) researchers. While both fields leverage the strong connection between language and behavior, social ...

Practising a tool-using task helps people do better in a test of complex language understanding – and the benefits go the other way too. The crossover may happen because some of the same parts of the ...